CSI News!

Mark Hyatt has been selected as Executive Director
of the Charter School Institute. 
Mark Hyatt is a retired Air Force Colonel and fighter pilot. In addition to being a front line combat squadron commander, he served as an advisor to the Secretary of Defense, was the Vice Commandant at the US Air Force Academy, and served six years as the Director of the Center for Character Development there.  In 2000, he received the Citizenship and Character Award from President Gerald Ford for his leadership of the cutting edge character development program at the Air Force Academy.
In 2002, his passion for education led him to become the President of The Classical Academy. For over seven years, he led the largest brick and mortar charter school in Colorado, which has over 3100 students and is larger than 75% of the school districts in the state and includes the largest home-school program of any school in Colorado, and a blended/hybrid on-line secondary school that has a unique community college partnership. He received the 2008 Education Innovator of the Year Award from the University of Colorado for this first of a kind partnership.  Under his leadership, the school has received regional, state, and national recognition for high student performance. He currently serves on Governor Ritter’s P-20 Education Counsel and Commissioner Jones' School Leadership Academy Board.