A collaboration between a charter school and the Central Falls School District in Rhode Island that began five years ago has broadened into a formal cooperation compact involving area charter schools and may gain $100,000 in support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The effort began with a small step, according to district Superintendent Frances Gallo. She was visting homes soon after she started her job in 2007, and during one stop the family got a call that their daughter had received a spot in a charter school through the lottery.
