The companion Brighter Choice Charter Schools -- the Brighter Choice Charter School for Girls and the Brighter Choice Charter School for Boys -- will provide a new model for urban elementary education, one that joins high academic standards, a nurturing and structured environment, and heightened accountability. The charter schools, located in Albany, NY, will target at-risk students and offer Kindergarten through 5th grade, when fully phased in under its current charter, with a total combined maximum enrollment of 290 students. The school will open in September 2002 with Kindergarten and first grade, then adding a grade each year.

Calvert School, a nondenominational elementary school located just north of the John Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, Maryland, provides an excellent day school education to area boys and girls. At the same time, the school offers an educational opportunity of similar quality to English-speaking children around the world through its Home Instruction Department.

Crossroads Academy, in Lyme, New Hampshire, is an independent day school, committed to academic and moral excellence. They strive to provide students with the tools they need to think clearly, judge responsibly, and act honorably.

Princeton Charter School's mission is to provide its diverse student body the best possible education by focusing on fundamental academic subjects in an atmosphere that affirms academic achievement, and in so doing, to offer true choice in public education. Princeton Charter School believes that "thorough and efficient education" is best accomplished through a rigorous curriculum that requires mastery of core knowledge and skills. PCS is located in Princeton, New Jersey. For a fascinating story on the circumstances leading to the birth of this charter school see Chiara R. Nappi's Why Charter Schools? The Princeton Story.

Princeton Day School, located on a 92-acre campus two miles from the center of Princeton, New Jersey, offers a comprehensive, coeducational, college preparatory curriculum from junior kindergarten through high school.