education entrepreneurship

Devan Dellenbach runs a rural microschool.Kerry McDonald On a quiet street in the tiny town of Abbyville, Kansas, population 83, lies Re*Wild Family Academy. Founded earlier this year by former Kansas public school teacher Devan Dellenbach,…

Chrystal and Joshua BernardKerry McDonald In early 2020, Chrystal and Joshua Bernard decided that they would begin homeschooling their four young children at the start of the following school year. Their two oldest children were completing…

James Lomax wanted to open a private school in Nevada.Kerry McDonald James Lomax knew he wanted to fly in Navy fighter jets from the first time he watched the original Top Gun movie as a seven-year-old child. It was the mid-80s and he…

Maria Castaneda pulled her boys out of a charter school for microschooling.Kerry McDonald Tears filled Maria Castaneda’s eyes as she recalled moving her son from a Las Vegas charter school to a microschool in 2020. She explained that in the…

Emily Williams runs Micah's Mission, a Mississippi microschool.Kerry McDonald When Emily Williams told her parents back in early 2020 that she was leaving her job as a certified public school teacher to launch a microschool, they thought…