Learning Where They Teach

Pursuing its own vision of classroom quality, a charter school chain is staking out turf on the teacher-training terrain.

The backgrounds of teachers at a batch of sibling charter schools here aren’t easy to pigeonhole. Alfred R. Solis majored in mechanical engineering in college and worked in the private sector for about six years.

Michelle S. Pledger traveled the world, teaching in Chile and Japan, and has a master’s degree in Pacific international affairs.

James O. Holmes spent a decade as a teacher and dean in Texas private schools, and earned a master’s degree in educational administration from...

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