Is a charter school chain called Rocketship ready to soar across America?

Inside a prefabricated beige building hard by the freight tracks, John Danner thinks he has solved one of the nation’s most vexing problems.

This is Rocketship Discovery Prep http://rocketshipdp-charters-ca.schoolloop.com/ , one of five charter elementary schools founded by Danner that are bridging the achievement gap — the staggering difference in academic performance between poor and privileged children.

By Lyndsey Layton

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