Analysis Of Agora Cyber Charter School

Nelson Mandela once said, "Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom” (Make Poverty History, 2005). Gwinnett county is third in the country when it comes to a high poverty rate, with 14% of the population living below poverty (Family Promise of Gwinnet County, 2013). As an educator it is important to familiarize with the county of which one is to teach in, and poverty is an issue in Gwinnett county. One must understand the affects of poverty on

Aurum Preparatory Academy Charter School will serve a student body that reflects the demographics of the community that surrounds it, and is designed to provide a high quality option to our highest need children. Currently, in the target community within District 7, student academic performance does not substantially increase as students progress from elementary to middle school, there is not a district school in the target community that is above the 50th statewide percentile ranking, and there is underperformance and underrepresentation for specific subsets of minority students in charter schools. Our target community is centered around the intersection of 96th Avenue and Bancroft Avenue in deep East Oakland, reaching five primary neighborhoods

Poverty is everywhere in this world especially in education. Poverty in education could come from the location of the school, the child’s home life, how the students feel about school and in many other ways. Poverty comes in all shapes and forms, “An appalling number of American Children live in poverty. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 14.7 million, or nearly 20 percent of children under age 18, live below the poverty line” (When Poverty…). The kids/students bring those debilitating effect with them to school every day.

Assuaging poverty is one of the gist missions of the Harlem Children’s Zone. In the United States today, exceeding “13 million” children live in poverty. We understand that children, who experience the backlash of poverty, often live in an unpleasantly conditions, unstable homes, and are at a great distance less likely than other children to get a favorable education and/or sufficient health care. The exposure to life of poverty more often limits learning abilities; bringing about the inability of getting the best jobs and earning maximum income, making it impossible for them to live up to their full potential, which will more like result in imprisonment.

A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne builds a model for combating poverty by tackling it at the earliest level of perpetuation-in schools. Schools, Payne advocates, should be the first line of defense against encroaching poverty and also the most effective weapon to beat it back. Unlike most economic tools, schools should be fine-tuned and deployed according to strict frameworks. Payne identifies two types of poverty and list eight resources which makes one a candidate. The thrust is thus primarily on how to deal with poverty in schools and how to equip the students with tools and education

Educators are perhaps the best super humans out there at this point in age. They constantly have to change and adapt new skills to keep up with new technology, psychological upgrades and environmental traumas that impact students. In Eric Jensen’s Teaching with Poverty in Mind provides new techniques future and current educators should use to combat the impact that poverty has on students, mentally, emotionally and physically. Jensen’s text has strengthened my opinions on education as well as added new views towards my future career as a high school educator.

Topic: Violation of the open-enrollment and teacher licensing statutes by Northern Ozaukee School District’s operation of a virtual charter school outside the district.

Many kids in the United States have been affected by poverty at some point in their lives. In fact, one in five children have been affected by poverty. A survey was done within the last year by the Scholastic company that interviewed a group of the State Teachers of the Year and asked them what they thought were some of the effects of poverty. Some popular answers were that it affects the way you perform in school greatly and that we need more anti-poverty programs to help out with these children. Poverty affects the success of students in many ways. These include not having the academic achievement that more advantaged kids did, not having experiences other kids did, and not having the early development they needed.

The stereotypes of people living in poverty in America are so deeply imbedded in our society. We as educators may need to examine our beliefs and open our mind to new interpretations of the behavior of those struggling without basic needs. Doing so, however, is the first step to improving our success and effectiveness with educating students in poverty and helping end the cycle of suffering. Educator’s attitudes and beliefs shape you tone of voice, your body posture, your facial expressions and your actions towards students. Working daily with students who are classified as living in poverty. I believe it is our duty as educators to work with student’s effect by generational poverty. One thing I do not see a lot of is help

Education is an important factor that is essential to being successful in the twenty first century. The abundant information and skills gained within the education system empowers the future students because they must be able to perform numerous tasks efficiently. Although disabled students have several barriers to face in the traditional education system, it is not fair for those students to receive a mediocre education because of limited services available or to discriminate them by rejecting their enrollment. Martin Luther Kind Jr. once said, “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” The book titled, “Charter Schools in Action”

The term poverty is often used when referring to third world countries like Sudan or Darfur. Painful images of families suffering from malnutrition are often the first thing that comes to mind. Yet, sadly, the same struggle is happening here in the U.S. and even worse, it’s happening right here in Ohio. The Columbus Dispatch reports that three years ago the state of Ohio was 12th in the nation for food insecurity because there were so many people who did not know where their next meal would come from. Now Ohio is ranked 6th in the nation for food insecurity. Many blame the troubles with the unemployment on the state’s difficulty recovering from the recession. Ohio’s poverty rate is rising as the national rate is leveling off (Candisky, 2011). According to the Ohio Poverty Report, Ohio’s individual and family poverty rate are lower than the nation’s average. Urban areas have higher rates but there are still people living in poverty in rural areas. Rates vary between characteristics and circumstances. Many families who receive cash assistance do not usually get out of poverty (Larrick, 2014)

Dallas, Texas is “both a city of great wealth and of great poverty” (Lee, J., 2015). Around 27% of children in Dallas struggle with food insecurity (Lee, J., 2015). The areas that are most affected by poverty in Dallas are South Dallas, below the center of downtown. In saying this, that is not the only area that is affected around Dallas; we have a large percentage of moderate to high poverty circle around Dallas. Our goal is for every child to be fully nourished; therefore, giving them the opportunity to learn, grow, and develop at their full potential.

According to GLOBAL ISSUES, “1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, and 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million Died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).” In America alone, much of our country lives in poverty and a very large portion of this population are the students that enter our classrooms. Although we as teachers are not expected to change our students’ financial situation, we are expected to fight against the odds that face our students that live in these conditions. However, jumping over meeting the physiological needs of our students

Charter schools are a relatively new concept for education in the United States. Originally, states created charter schools through legislation in Minnesota in 1991 (Raymond). The schools gained in popularity as more states began passing laws to allow their creation. By 2012, 41 states have charter schools, and they educated over two million students (Sanchez). Regardless of a person’s opinion about these institutions, they undoubtedly have a large impact on education in the United States. In recent years, the number of charter schools has risen astronomically. Between 2003 and 2013, these schools increased from 3000 to 6500 (“Fast

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the world, but yet poverty remains prevalent. Childhood poverty affects every aspect of their life. “Poverty is not having income for basic needs, food, medical care or basic needs and housing” (Crosson-Tower, 2014, p. 59). Poverty is affecting thousands of Americans every day, and it isn 't sparing anyone of a particular race, age or gender, leaving people on welfare, and without homes, or transportation. Poverty is a crisis that deserves attention from everyone, and it has many faces that are often not recognized