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Students at Pacific Collegiate School are getting the best education in the state, according to an annual ranking released by U.S. News. Link to full text >>
The Maine Charter School Commission approved contracts for three new charter schools which are scheduled to open in the fall. Link to full text >>
The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation is now accepting applications from underfunded music programs for in-kind donations of musical instruments. Link to full text >>
Grants of $2,000 each will be awarded to K-12 technology and engineering teachers to encourage the integration of a quality technology and engineering education program within their school's curriculum. Link to full text >>
Fifty-one youth ambassadors will be selected to join a national network of young people who will use their collective voice in service to other youth. Link to full text >>
US News rankings for 2013 has rated the International Studies Charter Middle/High School among top performing schools in the country. The school was ranked as #15 in the United States and # 2 in Florida. Link to full text >>
The second-annual U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools award honorees were announced on April 22nd by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at the Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Link to full text >>
Up to $4,000 per year is available to any qualifying K-12 school to help jumpstart and sustain healthy nutrition and physical activity improvements. Link to full text >>
The transition to the new Common Core literacy standards in reading have educators refocusing their curriculum. Teachers and principals at independent charter schools were among the educators taking part in a “School Study Tour” organized by NYC Collaborates, a nonprofit that seeks to facilitate conversation and collaboration across charter district line. Link to full text >>
Last fall, a federal discrimination complaint put pressure on the city’s specialized high schools for their low percentage of black or Hispanic students. Although two middle schools tried to change the odds, the results are even worse. Link to full text >>
The Charter School Exemplary Collaboration Award, a National Activities grant-award competition in the Charter Schools Program (CSP), is designed to provide an opportunity for high-quality charter schools with innovative ideas and a history of results to share their promising practices with non-chartered public schools and districts. Link to full text >>
The Salt Lake Arts Academy, one of the oldest charter schools in Salt Lake City, is celebrating its 10th year in operation. As a birthday present, the school received a $102,000 grant from the Daniels Fund to furnish new classrooms, buy state-of-the-art technology and continue to create an enriching alternative experience for students in Salt Lake Valley. Link to full text >>
Artist Ted Ellis is using a mural to not only encourage students at the Mainland Preparatory Charter School to think more of STEM courses but also use African American history to drive the point forward. The mural is designed to inspire students, especially African American students, to focus more on STEM courses. Link to full text >>
The beautifully designed building of PAVE Academy, a charter school in Red Hook, Brooklyn, is the first new elementary school in more than half a century for the isolated neighborhood, where “elementary and middle schools have struggled for decades to adequately prepare the neighborhood students,” according to PAVE’s administrators. Link to full text >>
Virginia Beach schools is opening its first public charter school. Green Run Collegiate will be an academically challenging college prep school, officials say. Link to full text >> |
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