Urban Prep Charter Academies: Business Analysis

Throughout history, educational neglect of rural schools and students only compounded the high unemployment and poverty rates of many rural communities. By having access to high-quality education programs you are able to promote rural economic development and help build back up those areas. However, juveniles, adults and those who are currently unemployed often times find it difficult due to the lack of access to post-secondary schooling or career training programs to find adequate employment. By giving access to appropriate transition services, academic remediation and accommodations to help achieve success on their individualized path it enables them to address their barriers to higher education and economic empowerment. This is why the need for The Steps to Success program is something our community needs because it will

In recent years, with the fast paced working environments, technological advancements have gained momentum. Employees are heavily relying on these technologies for their mundane tasks such as emails to analytical tasks such as creating reports. Therefore, the implementation of information technology (IT) into education sector is transforming learning, teaching, organizing, and managing in significant ways. Similarly, the Clarion School for Boys-Milwaukee Division adapted IT primarily to increase staff productivity, however its full application was yet to be implemented (CSU-Global, 2015).

Springsteen Charter school located in Newark New Jersey opened in 1999 with forty Kindergarteners. Marc Jones joined the school as its founding principal. The Newark School District was one of the lowest performing districts in New Jersey on the four mandated state tests (assessments of Math and Literacy in grades 3, 4, 8, and 11). Springsteen Charter had 190 students in grades K-4. The school demographics were 85% African-American, 15% Latino (Latino contingent is growing; all 2nd/3rd generation) and 90% of the students received free/reduced lunch. The school was built on an academic focus of improving math instruction and greater parental involvement, all students participate in an 1½ hour math blocks every day. Teaching staff was young and eager to succeed. However, the youth of the staff also caused high turnover. The school did not believe in classifying children as ESL(English as a second language) or SPED ( special education) only under extreme situations. It is 2003, and Springsteen Charter Elementary School has now been open for five years. Jones’ original group of students had entered the 4th grade and were the first group to take the state test—New Jersey 3rd grade Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJASK3). The students performed moderately better than the District in Literacy (60% proficient

As a new charter school located in a vibrant neighborhood in Wilmington, our school has worked directly with neighbors, community groups, local nonprofit organizations and local elected and government leaders to establish a good relationship and prepare the way for our students and families to benefit from our neighborhood and location. The Brandywine neighborhood where our school is located is in the center of downtown Wilmington, easily accessible to many local businesses and government agencies, and area neighborhoods, by foot and by public transportation. We have worked extensively with local community groups, agencies and organizations to ensure that the relationship between our school and the community is mutually beneficial. When

Chamblee, GA is a small city outside of the metro Atlanta area that is characteristically different racially and ethnically than everything around it. The Hispanic population stands at 58.5% of the total population as of 2010, but in Atlanta and Georgia more broadly, this population only makes up 5.2% and 8.8% respectively. Additionally, only 7% of Chamblee’s population is Black, whereas this group is 54% of Atlanta’s population and 30.5% of Georgia’s. However, my alma mater, Chamblee Charter High School, stood out from the city itself being an amalgamation of a magnet program and a charter public school, bringing in students from around the county with significant representation from the Chamblee area as well. Consequently, the school’s

James is an eleven year old child who is currently going into the seventh grade at the Harlem Success Charter School.

Fortunately and unfortunately, I am a product of charter schools. I attended Achieve Charter Academy from fifth grade to eighth grade. I joined the first year that it opened, leaving all my elementary friends right before graduation. Over the course of the four years I was in multiple advanced courses and performing well. By eighth grade I was in geometry that counted towards high school credit, and feeling good about my academic path. I am grateful of this, but it did not prepare me well for the future years to come. The way we learned was very basic. There was not as much rigor as there would be in a class of that extent. I was never really challenged during the course of the year. I entered high school with high hopes. Unfortunately the

To understand the state of charter schools today, it is important to know how a charter school was envisioned to be. Tell explains that charter schools, by nature, should be more accurately described as “contract” schools. These schools are contractually obligated to serve the interest of the general public by providing education opportunities using the funds provided from taxes. Traditionally, charter schools are defined as “tuition-free, publicly funded, performance-based, non-sectarian, public schools of choice open to all.”[1] These schools are considered autonomous because they are exempt from most, if not all, local and state rules and regulations regarding education. The reduction of applicable laws pertaining to these schools are supposed to liberate them from the supposedly strict regulations that bog down the education system that prevent teachers from what they were actually hired to do: to teach. Although novel in concept, this idea has been difficult to implement in reality.

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

Gulf Coast Charter School would be the best middle school option because there are weekly field activities, technology education programs, and clubs and extracurricular activities. Gulf Coast will allow students to learn more about things that already interest them and help them to realize what they might want to be involved in during high school.

Currently, I am working in the Kansas City Kansas school district. I was a preschool teacher assistant for three years and decided that I wanted to go further with my career goals. So I stepped out on faith and resigned from the district and started substitute with the district. While working in the urban school district I have learned so much from the students compared to when I was a student in the district. Not only have I learned from them I do believe I have made an impact on their education as well.

The state of Massachusetts has not reimbursed the charter school tuition funding it owes the municipalities, creating an underfunding of charter schools in Boston, explained City of Boston Budget Director Katie Hammer.

While the sentiment behind venture philanthropy is morally and ethically sound, the growing degree of power that philanthropists’ posses is largely unregulated and un-scrutinized, which calls for a reformation of the venture philanthropy sector.

It the past, many school corporations have consolidated, which has caused many small- town schools like Johnson township in Eckerty indiana, to absorbed and lose a part of their history . there are two residents of Eckerty, Darius and Anthony Adams, who recall their fond memories of the old Johnson Township School in Crawford County. Few residents remember its consolidating to a single school corporation, multiple grades and ages taught in just a few classrooms, or the closing of Johnson Township School.

Charter schools are believed to be schools that can sometimes aid a failing student through unconventional methods. Yet many charter schools fail to reach that higher standard that makes charter schools desirable. However, Alanna Clark’s mother still entered a lottery for Boston children to attend a school outside their neighborhood. Carter’s daughter struggled with a reading disability that was putting her behind her peers. This long shot lottery was Carter’s only sense of hope in the education system. Surprisingly Alanna won the lottery earning a seat at Match, a small charter school, and is now a confident tenth grader. Match is known for it’s “high expectations, high support” (Leonhardt) system where resources are devoted to teaching and students have high standards. Teachers are