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About the Sponsoring Organizations
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the U.S. Recognizing that strong families and strong neighborhoods are interdependent, the Casey Foundation is supporting broad strategies for neighborhood development and family transformation in twenty-two urban communities around the nation through its Making Connections initiative.
For more information about the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Making Connections initiative visit the website or contact:
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Tel: (410) 547-6600
Email: webmail@aecf.org
Web: http://www.aecf.org/initiatives/ntfd/making.htm
The Charter Friends National Network (CFNN) is a project of the Minnesota-based Center for Policy Studies in cooperation with Hamline University. Founded in early 1997, CFNN's mission is to connect and support state-level charter school organizations - mainly non-profit resource centers and associations of charter school operators.
The Charter Friends National Network, St. Paul, MN
Tel: (651) 649-5479
Email: info@charterfriends.org
Web: http://www.charterfriends.org
About the Authors
William P. Bethke is a partner in Kutz & Bethke, a law firm specializing in public education and disability law, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Denver School of Law. He was Board President of the Colorado League of Charter Schools from 1995-2000. Mr. Bethke has been a trial lawyer or labor arbitrator for over twenty years and currently represents a number of Colorado charter schools. He received a B.A. from Colorado State University in 1975 and a J.D. from the Yale Law School in 1978.
Email: wpbethke@earthlink.net
James W. Griffin is the Executive Director of the Colorado League of Charter Schools, the state's nonprofit association of charter schools. He has served in that capacity since the organization's inception in 1994, building the League from a one-person technical support/advocacy organization to a four-person comprehensive association of nearly eighty charter schools. Mr. Griffin received a B.A. from Connecticut College in 1989, and a J.D. from the University of Denver School of Law in 1994.
Email: james_griffin@ceo.cudenver.edu