# THOMPSON-HAYES: THE INSIDE OUT
## Chapter Thirty-Three — The Charter School Pilot
The funding confirmation came on a Tuesday morning in a single email from Anchor Education Ventures.
Nathan had sent it the night before — she could see from the timestamp it had gone at 11:47 p.m., which meant he had been working the LP conversations later than he had told her, which she noted but did not push on because there were certain categories of late-night work that were best received the morning after.
Full first-year funding. Ten schools instead of three.
She read it twice.
She called Director Simmons at Riverside.
Simmons answered on the second ring. "I saw the email," she said. "I've already been on the phone with three of the charter network directors this morning."
"How are they respo
