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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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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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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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Dickerson Employee Benefits

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Find your State Board member and tell them that you want the charter cap removed!

  District State School Board  members are here  and your district is below.

First District:
Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington

Second District:
Brunswick, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, New Hanover, Onslow, Pamlico, Pender, Sampson, Wayne

Third District:
Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Northampton, Vance, Wake, Warren, Wilson

Fourth District:
Bladen, Columbus, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Robeson, Scotland

Fifth [...]

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Ogie Shaw: “Inaugural Charter School Confernce by NC Alliance for Public Charter Schools a tremendous sucess, (in my opinion.)”

Inaugural Charter School Confernce by NC Alliance for Public Charter Schools atremendous sucess, (in my opinion.) The conference was held in Raleigh last month. Thanks to Paul Norcross and Alliance president Eddie Goodall I spoke at the opening session and two one hour break out sessions. I judge a convention by how much I learn. I met great people and heard a great presentation on [...]

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News from Academy of Moore County…good news

Academy of Moore County comes to agreement with the State Board. Read here…

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Cape Fear Center for Inquiry inquired

Dear Senator Goodall,

I called the NC Alliance for Public Charter Schools this morning to ask a questions pertaining to my employment as a charter school teacher at the Cape Fear Center for Inquiry in Wilmington, NC.  I did not, at the time, realize that your office was connected with this organization.

Within one hour I received a personal phone call with the answer to my question.

I [...]

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FACEBOOK QUESTION

We received the following question from The Academy of Moore County… please post a comment to help them out. Here is their question… The Academy is currently using NWEA MAP for our benchmark testing, but we feel it is too limited for our needs. What are the other charter schools using for benchmark testing?

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