Inspired by President Obama’s State of the Union speech challenging Americans to “out-innovate [and] out-educate” the rest of the world to “win the future,” Green Dot America, a new national public education reform organization, will now be known as Future Is Now (FIN) Schools. “The Future Is Now for a new public school model as well as a new unionism,” said Barr, who founded both Green Dot Public Schools (GDPS) and Future Is Now Schools. Read the entire release.