Our charter school funding strategy starts from the assumption that competition will inspire improvement in educational achievement. By funding charter schools, we place competitive pressure on the Bay Area’s K–12 public school systems, leading to sustained educational gains for all students. We target high‐impact opportunities where Koret can promote the development, dissemination, and evaluation of effective and promising educational models in an effort to drive entrepreneurialism, choice, and market‐based competition throughout the K–12 educational arena.

We also strongly support increasing student achievement in reading and mathematics before students enter high school. We therefore have funded all of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) schools in the Bay Area.

In addition, we fund charter school policy work and resource development through grants to Pacific Research Institute (PRI), the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Hoover Institution, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and the California Charter Schools Association.

Koret-funded Charter Schools