Charter Leaders,
You will be able to register for the July 11-13 conference on our new website which we hope to have ready in about a week. We will be at the beautiful Sheraton Raleigh and have an impressive early list of speakers including Michigan’s Dr. Brian Carpenter and former Office of Charter School’s Dr. Otho Tucker. We have special discounted room rates for you. Get this on your calendar now.
New charter applicants and existing charter schools should look at innovative ways to obtain facilities. Seek out developers who might envision your school adding value to their investment, for example your school housed in a mixed use development including child care, libraries, etc. On a larger scale is this project. DNAinfo reports that Harlem RBI, a nonprofit which operates New York City’s Dream Charter School in addition to baseball and afterschool programs, is in talks with city agencies to create an $85 million development which would combine a 60,000 square foot school building with 10 stories of low-income housing.
An Alliance member school had some challenges surrounding First Amendment speech rights and religion last week. If any of you have a section of your policy and procedures documents addressing similar issues please let me know and I’ll pass the information along to the school in need.
Tennessee’s Volunteers are not in Final Four thanks to the Spartans of Michigan State but look who’s in Education’s Final Two and pockets $500,000,000 (did I get the zero’s right?)
Analysts have pulled for Volunteer, but
have been blinded by a positive attitude
and gee-whiz-git-r-done spirit; don’t be
fooled by faulty and incomplete reports
on charters; much to say about value
added model and compensation systems,
but will it really lead to pay for
performance and a pay day for TN?
Charter High Schoolers: want to work in the senate chamber for a week this summer? See the Senate Page Program. For elementary and middle school students here is a “Kids’ Link” to the North Carolina General Assembly and how laws are made in our state.
Here are the scores and we aren’t talking about basketball. Our team did not win but if we practice being charter friendly maybe the refs will make a call for us. See the attached Alliance’s press release today.
The Hawbridge School is a four-year public high school that offers an enriched curriculum in Environmental Studies and the Arts and a focus on environmental stewardship as a problem of ethics. A highly accredited faculty teaches all courses needed for the North Carolina College Prep, College Tech Prep, and Career Prep.
We have 41 school members. To sustain our advocacy we have to have 100% membership. Attached in the application to join the Alliance. Only $3 per student ($1,500 maximum per school) brings you a year’s worth of resources from North Carolina’s first and only fulltime charter school advocate. Join today and in time to enjoy substantial discounts on the summer conference costs! You may save you membership fees by member discounts on our conference alone!
Dr. Otho Tucker: Conference Keynote
NC Alliance of Public Charter Schools objectives:
1. To advance quality educational opportunities for NC students.
2. To become the primary advocacy organization and voice for charter schools in North Carolina.
3. To educate the public about what charter schools are and why they are needed.
4. To create a communications forum for the charter community.
5. To enhance the legislative and regulatory environment.
6. To harness the collective charter resources to leverage those resources.
7. To provide an annual conference and workshops to share best practices.
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Eddie Goodall, President
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