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National Alliance for Charter Schools: National Charter Schools Week
Dear Friends, On behalf of the public charter schools movement, welcome to National Charter Schools Week 2013! National Charter Schools Week – May 5-11, 2013 – celebrates the great work accomplished by public charter schools, which now serve more than 2.3 million students and provide parents with high-quality public education options. This week gives us, [...]
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North East Carolina Prep School Adds 9th Grade, Expects Enrollment near 900.
TARBORO — By August of this year, North East Carolina Prep School (NECP) will more than double the number of students who initially enrolled last August. “I think we’ve only just scratched the surface,” said NECP executive director John Westberg of the school’s enrollment. Edgecombe County’s only charter school has approximately 400 students enrolled in [...]
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Langtree Charter Academy Hires Principal
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Langtree Charter Academy, set to open this fall in Mooresville, has hired veteran educator Joan Roman as principal. Roman’s experience includes teaching and coaching as well as being a member of school improvement teams, leadership teams, principal intern and middle school dean in an urban K-8 school in Ohio. Read more [...]
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Grand Rapids Public Schools charter partnership could help the most vulnerable students
GRAND RAPIDS, MI –Some school district leaders look at charter schools as a threat. But Grand Rapids Public Schools bosses deserve credit for a new agreement with a Covenant House, a New York-based organization with offices in Michigan, to open a charter school in Campau Park Elementary aimed at some of the city’s most vulnerable [...]
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Whites flock to private schools while minorities more likely in charters
The search for a way out of underfunded and underperforming public schools has led hundreds of thousands of Texas students into an alternative education. They generally have ended up in private schools, charters or home schools. And school district records from Dallas, Harris and Travis counties show whites are more likely to go to private [...]
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“How Cool is Your School?” Bear Grass Charter
Bear Grass Charter School in Martin County was the site of Friday morning’s second “How Cool Is Your School?” stop by WITN News at Sunrise. The school has been recently revived inside and out by a community of teachers, students, and volunteers. Students, parents, teachers and school administrators packed the school on Friday to join [...]
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