ASPIRA, Inc. of Pennsylvania operates a variety of community programs, after-school programs, summer camps, a childcare program called the ASPIRA Learning Academy Scholars, and an early childhood educational development program called Pequenos Pasos de ASPIRA. The work of ASPIRA schools as a charter management organization began when ASPIRA founded Eugenio Maria de Hostos Charter School in 1998. ASPIRA has since founded two other schools, Antonia Pantoja Charter School and ASPIRA Bilingual Cyber Charter School, and has been given the privilege of managing two more by the School District of Philadelphia, totaling the operation of five charter schools.