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Kennedy Charter basketball

Kennedy Charter School has been playing basketball for a few years now, but the team has never been a factor or anywhere close to one of the state’s elite teams .

That’s changed now.

The Eagles are 4-0 and winning by an average of 53 points per game. At least four of them will play Division I college basketball at a high level, and Monday, Kennedy Charter [...]

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Union Academy wins $15,000 of HON furniture in the “Staples Advantage” drawing!

Staples/HON Furniture $15,000 drawing- Union Academy won the classroom full of furniture! The winner was picked from Alliance entries at the HON booth at our 2011 conference plus each member school got an extra entry for every $500 spent under our Staples Advantage program between Jan. 1 and Oct. 31, 2011. If you are not using our program call Kristin Brucker today at 919-608-3274! You [...]

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Triad Math and Science

Alliance visits Triad Math & Science

Paul Norcross and Eddie Goodall, Alliance Chair and President, respectively, visited Triad Math & Science and Hakan Orak yesterday at the school’s new facilities in Greensboro. Read more here…

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Carolina International School Needs Your Help!

We were nominated to (hopefully) win $50,000.00 through Clorox’s Power A Bright Future grant contest.  We need more votes to WIN!  We are currently 22nd but have to be #1 for this Big prize.  We’re doing well for a small, charter school but we’re looking for some additional help, support and mostly VOTES!

What can you do to help us win this?

The TEXT vote is EASY:  [...]

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Holly Springs Rotary and Kestrel Heights School

The “Charter Trail” this week led to Holly Springs and Durham. Thanks to Brian Woomer, of Woomer Insurance in Apex, for the invitation to address the Holly Springs Rotary Club Wednesday.

Kestrel Heights School, with a proud 13 year history of success, is having its ribbon cutting for a new Middle School building and I am priviledged to join that ceremony at 1 pm today at [...]

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Note for high schools…”Career & College Promise”

Governor Perdue’s Career and College Promise initiative, which was adopted by the General Assembly and begins in January 2012, will provide students with a remarkable opportunity to accomplish up to two years of college credit while in high school. In detail, the initiative will provide eligible high school students an opportunity to achieve 30 hours of college transfer credit through North Carolina’s Community Colleges while [...]

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$9.95 Monthly Internet Access for Students

Introducing Internet Essentials from Comcast

We want to bring the power of the Internet to more students and families across the country. That’s why we created Internet Essentials to offer home Internet service for only $9.95 a month.

Four ways Internet Essentials gets you connected — for less.
While participating in Internet Essentials:

You get fast home Internet service for only $9.95 a month, plus tax
You never have any price [...]

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Best High Schools for Math and Science

We looked at the nearly 600 schools that qualified for the Gold, Silver, and Honorable Mention lists of the U.S. News Best High Schools and then evaluated their students’ participation rates and performances on AP® exams in math and science. The following are the 208 high schools that performed the best in those subjects.

Raleigh Charter High School tied for 11th place. Congratulations!!!!

http://education.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-high-schools/rankings/math-science/sort%2Brank/sortdir%2Basc?page=1

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Have charter educators applied for the The Kenan Fellows Program?

To learn more about the program, available for all of NC’s public school teachers, please click this link to view the PDF: About the Program2010-07-07 or call Eddie Goodall at 704-236-1234.

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Pine Lake Preparatory’s Marching PRIDE competed at the Carolina Cavalcade Festival of Bands

Pine Lake Preparatory’s  Marching PRIDE competed at the Carolina Cavalcade Festival of Bands this past Saturday, September 24th. The group took home honors for 1st place Overall in Class, 1st place Musical Effect, 1st place General Effect, 1st Color Guard, 1st place Drum Major, and 1st place Percussion. Their next competition performance will be at the Mooresville HS “Blue Devil Classic” on Saturday, October 15, [...]

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