Rock the Schools with Citizen Stewart

Rock The Schools host Chris Stewart tells the story of high performing charter schools in Tennessee, RePublic Schools with its Founder, Ravi Gupta and the political threats to not exist, that accompany the outstanding performance that Mr. Gupta’s charter schools are Ravi Gupta is the Founder and CEO of RePublic Schools, which runs four charter schools in Tennessee and two in Mississippi. RePublic’s schools, which are populated by over ninety percent students of color and over eighty five percent economically disadvantaged students, routinely outperform the city and state in core subjects. It’s flagship schools — Liberty Collegiate and Nashville Prep — are the highest performing charter schools in Tennessee for three consecutive years and the first and only two charter schools in the state’s history to rank in the top five percent of public schools for growth and student achievement. Ravi previously served as Special Assistant and Speechwriter to Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He also s