The U.S.

Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) today announced the
award amounts for twelve charter school grants, totaling $50 million, to charter management
organizations to replicate and/or expand high-quality charter schools with demonstrated records of
success.

(Insert quote from Secretary Duncan regarding charter schools.)

The Administration will invest more than $256 million this year to assist in the planning and
implementation of public charter schools and dissemination of their successful practices through the
Charter School Grants Program. President Barack Obama's fiscal year 2011 budget request includes a
$54 million increase in the Charter School Grants Program, providing $310 million and representing
another step toward meeting the Administration's commitment to double financial support for the program
during the President’s term.

Many charter school operators are today's education entrepreneurs. The purpose of the Charter School
Grants Program is to increase financial support for these public schools, build a better national
understanding of the public charter school model, and increase the number of high-quality public charter
schools across the nation.

More information about the Charter Schools Program is available from the Education Department's Office
of Innovation and Improvement at: http://www.ed.gov/programs/charter/index.html.

Note to Editors: Following is a list of grantees by state and grant award amount for the first year of the
grant followed by grantee contact information.

Grantee FY10 Award

Achievement First
Project description: 14 new schools and 2 expanded schools serving an
additional 5,500 students in New Haven, CT, Bridgeport, CT, Hartford, CT,
Brooklyn, NY, Providence, RI, and Cranston, RI $1,675,403
Aspire
Project description: 15 new schools serving an additional 4,500 students in
California $5,587,500
Foundation for a Greater Opportunity
Project description: 1 new school and 3 expanded schools serving an
additional 4,000 students in Bronx, NY $1,483,796
IDEA
Project description: 22 new schools serving an additional 19,000 students in
the Rio Grande Valley in Texas $8,734,617
KIPP Foundation in consortium with KIPP Regions
Project description: 21 new schools and 11 expanded schools serving an
additional 15,000 students in Helena, AR, Denver, CO, Washington, DC,
Jacksonville, FL, Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Gary, IN, New Orleans, LA, Lynn,
MA, Newark, NJ, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Houston, TX, San Antonio,
TX, and Austin, TX $14,550,084
LEARN
Project description: 3 new schools and 2 expanded schools serving an
additional 1,350 students in Chicago, IL $1,025,750
Mastery
Project description: 15 new schools serving an 8,500 additional students in
Philadelphia, PA and Camden, NJ $5,130,000
Noble
Project description: 6 new schools and 5 expanded schools serving an
additional 5,000 students in Chicago, IL $3,269,766
Project Yes
Project description: 6 new schools and 2 expanded schools serving an
additional 4,000 students in Houston, TX $2,781,511
Propel
Project description: 4 new schools and 1 expanded school in Pittsburgh, PA $1,149,586
Success
Project description: 13 new schools and 3 expanded schools serving an
additional 4,200 students in New York, NY and Bronx, NY $1,986,987
Uncommon
Project description: 7 new schools and 2 expanded schools serving an
additional 3,000 students in Troy, NY, Rochester, NY, and Newark, NJ $2,625,000
$50,000,000

Grant Contact Phone Email

Achievement First
Erica Schwedel (203) 773-3223 ericaschwedel@achievementfirst.org
Aspire
Mike Barr (510) 434-5000 mike.barr@aspirepublicschools.org
Foundation for a Greater Opportunity
Julie Goodyear (212) 702-4353 jgoodyear@sfire.com
IDEA
Susanna Crafton (956) 377-8224 susanna.crafton@ideapublicschools.org
KIPP Foundation in consortium with KIPP
Regions
David Wick (617) 669-8850 dwick@kipp.org
LEARN
Greg White (312) 391-6959 gwhite@learncharter.org
Mastery
Courtney Collins-Shapiro (267) 688-6868 courtney.shapiro@masterycharter.org
Noble
Sara Kandler (312) 348-1879 skandler@noblenetwork.org
Project Yes
Stephanie Jones (713) 253-6080 Stephanie.jones@yesprep.org
Propel
Jeremy Resnick (412) 325-7305 jresnick@propelschools.org
Success
Keri Hoyt (917) 881-9295 keri.hoyt@successcharters.org
Uncommon
Carolyn Hack (212) 844-7905 chack@uncommonschools.org