SAN JOSE — Rocketship Education shot to national prominence by operating charter schools that produced stellar test scores from poor and immigrant students with a model focused on high-energy teaching ...

After an emotional two-hour public hearing, the California State Board of Education on Friday denied a bid by the Rocketship Public Schools to open a new Bay Area school at a time of heightened debate ...

John Danner is leaving Rocketship Education, the innovative, Palo Alto-based K-5 charter school network he cofounded seven years ago, to become an entrepreneur again. He is starting an as yet unnamed ...

The Antioch school board has unanimously agreed to place Rocketship Delta Prep Charter School on probation and conditionally accept its responses to violation notices. The charter school, which ...

Parents had until May 1 to enroll their children in schools matched through D.C.’s high-stakes school lottery. But families that selected a new Rocketship charter school in Ward 5 were in for a rude ...

Commentary about NPR’s recent coverage of Rocketship charter schools continued unabated over the weekend on Twitter and Facebook. The 6/24 story (High Test Scores — But At What Cost?) has been admired ...

For the next 40 minutes, half the 4th graders here at Rocketship Sí Se Puede Academy, a charter elementary school in a low-slung building nestled below Highway 680, will be split between the language ...

Rocketship is a chain of free, public K-5 college prep K-5 charter schools. It was founded in 2006, and based in San Jose, Calif. As of 2012, Rocketship operated five schools in the San Jose region ...