A New Charter School Area

Urban Prep Charter Academies is a three campus charter public school in the city of Chicago. Urban Prep is located in the West, Bronzeville, and Englewood communities. The three campuses have grew the name of getting 100% acceptances into college, with the population of African American young males. “Urban Prep’s mission is to provide a high-quality and comprehensive college-preparatory educational experience to young men that results in our graduates succeeding in college” (About Urban Prep, 2012). Upon my discovery, Urban Prep counseling department consist of academic counselors, personal counselors, and college counselors. Each department work together towards fulfilling the school’s mission of providing and assisting in implementing a high-quality

The issue that causes the most tension at Westside Consolidated School District No. 5 is the school shooting. Many families moved out of the school district as a result and the district has not recovered fully from the departure of those business leaders and students. The projected growth is another community issue that is causing tension. The state of the district buildings and amenities is not on the level of our former rival Valley View nor our current rival Brookland and the district has few options to build new buildings, retain teachers, and offer new class curriculums for the student

Lake Wales Charter Schools system (LWCS) opened its doors to the first students in August of 2004. LWCS faces several challenges, including educating a large migrant population and high poverty rates. Serving over 4,000 students in Lake Wales, Florida, superintendent of schools Jesse L. Jackson and his administration have worked to foster an internal culture of collaboration and communication to innovatively engage their students and families.

partnerships with workforce training programs. Through our 20+ partnership and standalone campuses, we offer a range of classroom,

Prosper, Texas is one of the last additions to Collin County and has a current population of over 12,000 residents (Minor, 2010). Prosper’s establishment came about from the merging of two farming settlements in 1902, however the city’s name was not incorporated until 1914 (“History”, n.d.; Minor, 2010). According to the city’s webpage, Prosper is committed to being family-oriented and providing every resident an opportunity to experience quality living while maintaining small town ideals (“About Prosper”, n.d.). The Prosper Independent School District’s (PISD) vision to “reach everyone, everyday” (“REACH Philosophy / REACH”, 2002) mirrors the town’s belief in including everyone. Despite the exceptional growth within the city over the past few years, the school district is determined to meet the needs of its student population. One way in which PISD plans to ensure all of its students receive an equitable education, is through its adoption and implementation of the Response to Intervention (RtI) program.

(Bredekamp, 2009). I will show the parent that we can be in harmony in the program and with the family’s values. I need to take away the feeling that I am right and they are wrong and I need to see that neither one of us are right or wrong. I need to see that we are learning and trying to help their child to grow, learn and develop. (Bredekamp, 2009). The role of our local community is to provide a physical, emotional, and cognitive environment that helps in the development and learning of the child. We with community will build a foundation that is consistent, positive, and caring relationships with adults and children. (Bredekamp, 2009). We will build that relationship with teachers and children and families and teachers. We as community it is our responsibility to contribute to the well-being and learning of the child. I will get the child involved in the community and their families because it helps them to learn about themselves and the world around them. The community involved in my school helps children respect and be able to acknowledge their differences. I as a teacher will develop responsibility and help with self-regulation with the

My family and i went on a train trip, to Seward AK with "Twindly Bridge Charter School". The morning we left, we were gone by 3:45 am. We arrived at The Alaska Railroad Train Station by 5:30 am, and we checked in our luggage. Our entire school sat in cart F 210, we were all aboard by approximately 6:00 am. I sat in seat row K number 12.

Green provided numerous examples as to why it’s very important for the federal or state government to get involved in this debate surrounding charter schools. He explained in New Orleans; lawsuits were filed against charter schools for not providing education to students with disabilities. In Washington state, there is a reverse effect to having too many charter schools. The public is complaining that there are not enough options for public education. And more recently, in a New York Post article, Public advocate Letitia James is filing a civil lawsuit against Success Academy Charter school for discriminating against students with disabilities. These examples stress the need for federal oversight.

Data from the Lexington and Rockhill partnerships, as well as the planning minutes from the Summer Institute, indicate changes have been made for program improvement and candidate development (SSA exhibits: Partnership Lexington Connection Program.docx, Partnership Rockhill Raider Aviator Connection Program.docx, and Partner PD Co-Planning the Summer

The state of Utah has recently been trying to create a new formula of funding to schools to better equalize charter and public schools. At this point in time Charter schools are receiving their funds from the school districts property tax revenue known as local replacement funding and from the state per-pupil funding. The per-pupil funding is an amount given per student enrolled on October 1. This amount will still be given year long even if a student transfers out creating a steady income of the same amount while enrollment fluctuates. The school districts local replacement funding requires them to hand over one-fourth of their property tax revenue money to be distributed to the charter schools in their region. The District is unhappy to

District 7 needs to build a new school to improve our facilities. One reason why are facilities need to be improved is because we do not need rags laying in the halls to soak up water when it is raining. We do not need rags laying in the hall saturated in water because they get in the way of us walking in the halls, and they are easy to trip over and cause someone to fall and get hurt.

Being in a charter school, the academic school day is much different than in a public school. My CT, has to have her lesson plan turned in and approved at least 2 weeks prior to the lesson. There is no room for error, let alone the students not understanding any lesson. If a lesson is taught on a Monday, the classroom will be moving on to the next lesson on Tuesday, regardless if the students understand the lesson or not. There is also no differentiation in the classroom. All of the students are given the same materials, lessons and the same amount of help. There are students with IEP’s and students with their English at basic proficiency levels. The only time that instruction is differentiated is when one specific student struggles with

Another issue will an all charter school district is parent involvement. There are so many different types of parents: some take initiative and others do not. Would parents who normally do not take a notice in their child’s life take any interest in researching which charter school they would like their child to go to if the district was made solely of charter schools? William Jeynes (2009) argues that parents may not have “sufficient information about the options available to make the most prudent [choice]” for their child because of their financial position (p. 11). Cambridge, Massachusetts has transformed its school district into a public school choice program where parents can choose which public school to send their child to. The

During the semester, there were various issues we discussed regarding P-12 and higher education that I found to be informative. The issue that I found most intriguing was charter schools. It was intriguing because I knew very little about the topic. The article discussion and presentation on charter schools provided information that heightened my awareness on the number of students attending charter schools in the United States. I was not aware of how charter schools had grown from 300,000 to 2.5 million students nationwide. Today, there are over 6,400 charter schools in the United States. One of my colleagues did a presentation on charter schools. I learned more about charter schools, and how they are operated. For instance, charter

The project was a difficult task because it was difficult finding a great time to meet with the group. The first meeting was very successful. Objectives were set and realistic. We decided for each member for the group to locate schools, high school or middle school, that would be at least interested in setting up a meeting with us. We all decided to narrow it down to just focusing on two schools. We targeted Fenwick and Walther Christian Academy. At the beginning,