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Get the Message Out

All of you have been involved at various times in talks about how to get the message out to the legislature and the larger community about charter schools’ image and successes. Attached is analysis of this year’s charter schools’ test scores v. traditional schools’ scores – it is wonderful news that has once again escaped the media’s attention, as well as, apparently, DPI’s.  Please take [...]

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Union Academy: Sharing A Dream … Building A Future

Union Academy
Sharing A Dream … Building A Future
Press Release
August, 2010

Union Academy won the Association of School Business Official’s
International’s (ASBO) Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting
Program (COE) for excellence in the preparation and issuance of the fiscal
year end 2009 school year. This public charter school has provided a high-
quality Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the fiscal
year end 2009. This is the first time the school [...]

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New Dimensions 8-2010

New Dimensions

Courtesy of Andy Hearn

“Back to School Night”  Eddie Goodall, Cindy Bradshaw and Steve Moody,

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Cash for charters?

Many charters, like our district counterparts, are seeing their budgets stretched and deserve their share of the award,” said North Carolina Sen. Eddie Goodall, who also serves as president for the North Carolina Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Read more…

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Special Thanks to Our Web Designer

We just wanted to give a special THANKS to our website designer and tell you a little bit about them:

O3 Strategies is a Raleigh-based web design, development and marketing firm.  We provide custom websites, applications and online marketing solutions to grow your business or organization.  Further, we implement tools so you can track results to ensure you meet your goals.  O3 offers a number of service options, competitive [...]

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Teachers Collect Big Bucks in Just 10 minutes for a Great Cause!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact:
Leslie Kidder
Pine Lake Preparatory
704-237-5300 voice
704-237-5398 fax
lkidder@pinelakeprep.org
www.pinelakeprep.org

Headline: Teachers Collect Big Bucks in Just 10 minutes for a Great Cause!

Mooresville, N.C., August 23, 2010 –

Pine Lake Prep’s teachers are well known for quick thinking, camaraderie and
successful academic measures. Little did they know how well they would “score” last
week at their Back to School Orientation! Each year, the entire staff participates in team
building exercises. This year, [...]

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NC wins a piece of the prize

From the NC Alliance:

The NC Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a proponent of choice and competition in K-12 education, is happy to hear of our state’s selection to receive federal dollars for all our schools. With NC’s looming deficit and knowing our state’s taxpayers have to pay the federal taxes to fund Race to the Top spending, naturally we want our share of the $4.35 [...]

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The Great American Salad Bar Project

Check out the information below on how your school might be able to get a free salad bar in your school!

WHAT

The Great American Salad Bar Project, an initiative of TheLunchBox.org.

GOAL

A healthy salad bar in every school across America so all school kids may have access to fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and healthy proteins, every school day.

WHY

The time is ripe for 31 million schoolchildren. [...]

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Now I wonder what advice Ms. Pope will give the Governor

Lynn,

Now I wonder what advice Ms. Pope will give the Governor about public charter schools?

You know, those pesky little public schools providing a choice for parents who may have a child who better fits the charter’s culture or pedagogical structure than the district school around the corner. Those Main Street schools accountable to the state because if they don’t produce they close. Those “charter-like” schools [...]

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Charter School Awarded A+ Fit School Designation and Grant to Tackle Obesity

The Learning Center! Charter School is a proud recipient of both the “A+ Fit School” designation and a $7500 grant awarded by The North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund (HWTF). The HWTF announced the award of eight Fit Community designations and seven A+ Fit School designations to North Carolina municipalities, nonprofit organizations and schools. These designations recognize the work that has been done to [...]

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