The NC Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the Howard N. Lee Institute are announcing a strategic partnership aimed at advocating and implementing educational initiatives for public school students.
The partnership is developing a series of initiatives for charter schools to enhance learning, teaching, and leadership.
Dr. Landry, the new chairman of the NC Alliance, and Senator Howard Lee, the President and founder of the Howard N. [...]
The NC Alliance for Public Charter Schools has selected Dr. Robert Landry as its new chairman. Dr. Landry has strong experiences in both the public education system and in the private sector. The Virginia Tech graduate recently retired as Superintendent of the Davie County School System after 36 years in the public school system.
According to Dr. Landry, the state-wide charter school advocacy [...]
In a speech last Wednesday, Pat McCrory, Republican gubernatorial candidate, summarized improvements that he would make to the state’s educational system.
His first priority will be to give families and students more choices: for charter schools he will speed up the current slow-moving application process to help the thousands of families on public charter school waiting lists; he will expand the access to and [...]
Academics, Assets, and Administration are all Alpha
A toss of the mortar board for the students and staff at Alpha Academy for an outstanding 2010-2011 year!
Academics: Continuing their year-to-year gains, this 300-plus student, K-8 Fayetteville public charter school scored an impressive 83.4% performance composite combined with high academic growth for the year according to DPI reports. These scores are “School of Distinction” levels, [...]
Durham, NC – Area charter schools were called before the Durham Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) recently for an “education session” on charter schools for BOCC members.
Prior to the meeting, charter schools were asked to respond to an extensive questionnaire covering a wide range of topics. Enrollment, discipline procedures, lottery process, transportation, EC methods, AIG methods, teacher compensation, facilities, and community partnerships were some of [...]
Thanks to Paul Norcross who headed the NC Public School Advisory Council subcommittee on Automation, the new online charter school application is available beginning March 1 at https://schools.nc.gov/charterapp .
Paul and his subcommittee teamed with the DPI web wizards, and groups can now enter their applications for the April round online. Paul is the founder and chairman of the highly successful Phoenix Academy charter school in [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. – Former N.C. State Auditor Les Merritt, a Zebulon CPA, has joined the board of directors of the N.C. Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Merritt will serve as the organization’s treasurer.
“Les Merritt has supported the public charter school movement in North Carolina from day one,” says Paul Norcross, chairman of [...]
As many of you know, in recent weeks the Alliance has undergone some changes and moved to a less centralized, regional approach. As part of our reorganization, we introduced Pioneer Strategies as our communication partner in early January.
Today, we wanted to introduce you to the key players at Pioneer Strategies and let you know how they are available to serve you.
Frank Williams, Lead [...]
Last week the N.C. Alliance for Public Charter Schools held six successful regional meetings over the course of three days at locations throughout the state. The regional meetings, which attracted approximately 100 people representing both existing public charter schools and prospective new charter schools, came on the heels of the Alliance’s announcement that it has moved toward a decentralized, regional structure.
“Our first round of regional [...]
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