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$2 million Charter School Program grants available
Dear School Developers and Implementers: We hope this Father’s Day message finds you and your colleagues well. This is a TIME SENSITIVE message: On June 11, 2013, the US Department of Education released a RFP for the federal Non-SEA CSP grant programs. North Carolina charter developers and existing schools are eligible to apply [...]
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Advisory Council’s June 18-19 Meeting Cancelled; Subcommittee Webinar Scheduled
* NC Public Charter School Advisory Council’s June 18-19 Meeting Cancelled; Subcommittee Webinar Scheduled Due to scheduling conflicts, the N.C. Public Charter School Advisory Council meeting scheduled for June 18 and 19, as originally planned, has been cancelled. All interviews that were scheduled for June 18 and 19 will be moved to July 15, 16 [...]
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Overcoming the Odds: Getting Every Student to College (YES Prep Shares Its Success Story)
Overcoming the Odds: Getting Every Student to College (YES Prep Shares Its Success Story) YES Prep Public Schools is a system of 11 secondary schools in Houston, where 95 percent of the students are Hispanic or African-American; 80 percent are from low-income families; and more than 90 percent will be the first generation in their [...]
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Voyager Academy graduates its first senior class!
Perhaps the most intimate of the high school graduation ceremonies in the area convened downtown inside a Durham Arts Council auditorium on Thursday. “Remember, you are the first graduating class of Voyager Academy,” commencement speaker Charles Wilson said. “There will never be another Voyager class with that distinction.” Read more here…
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Uwharrie Charter Academy to open August 5th
ASHEBORO — Randolph County’s first charter school will open in the fall under the guidance of two area high school teachers. The Uwharrie Charter Academy opens Aug. 5. The school can enroll 200 freshmen and sophomores during its inaugural year. Rhonda Dillingham, Uwharrie’s chief curriculum officer, said teachers will focus on preparing students for college without [...]
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Bear Grass Charter gets a surprise visitor….
Bear Grass Charter School principal Donna Moore said a bear visited Bear Grass. Moore said they kept the students in their classrooms until they were sure it was safe to move around campus again. Of course, the school mascot is a bear. Principal Moore joked in an email that their school mascot stopped by to tell them to have a [...]
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