Jack McCarthy
President & CEO, AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation Washington, D.C.
I think the thing that has made D.C. such a positive place for charter schools is that the law was created at a time when the need was great. It allowed people to come in with entrepreneurial ideas, and it gave everyone the space to create things that were new and different, like in our case developing an early childhood school, without all of the constraints — all the regulatory constraints — that sometimes prevent you from doing logical things and bringing them to scale.
