Charter Schools Advisory Board February 2018 Meeting Highlights

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Charter Schools Advisory Board Highlights

February 20, 2018

Charter Schools Advisory Board Receives School Presentation and NCDPI Updates


The North Carolina Charter Schools Advisory Board met Feb. 12-13 in the 7th Floor Board Room, Education Building, 301 N. Wilmington Street, Raleigh. 

 

The agendas are available on the State Board of Education’s website under the Meetings tab. The meeting was audio streamed for those who could attend.

 

During this meeting the CSAB received a presentation from Mr. Cotton Bryan, Executive Director, Woods Charter School on what the school does to perform academically above the LEA in which it is located. 


 

Presentation linked hereCSAB Presentations

 


Additionally, Ms. Stephanie Cyrus, NCDPI Consultant, Academically or Intellectually Gifted (AIG) & Advanced Programs presented in conjunction with an AIG coordinator from Evergreen Charter School to detail its AIG program implementation.



Presentation linked hereCSAB Presentations

 

 

Questions regarding this meeting should be directed to NCDPI Communications at 919-807-3450.


Charter School Application Reviews/Interviews

 

The CSAB  conducted its interview phase for 5 of 29 applicants proposing to open in 2019-20 on February 12-13, 2018.  The schools appearing before the CSAB and their recommendations are as follows:

  

 

  • Steele Creek STEM Academy -  RECOMMENDED to the SBE

  

 

  • Rising Above the Stars Academy - NOT Recommended to the SBE

 

 

  • Tillery Charter Academy - RECOMMENDED to the SBE

 

 

  • Wilmington School of the Arts - NOT Recommended to the SBE

 


  • Eminence Academy - NOT Recommended to the SBE

 

CSAB committees conducted clarification reviews/interviews at its February 12-13, 2018, meeting for 4 of 29 applicants proposing to open in 2019-20. The applicant groups below forwarded to interview will receive a full one-hour interview with the CSAB at its March 2018 meeting. 

 

 

 

  • Liberty Leadership Academy -  NOT forwarded to interview



 

  • B.L.U.E. G.R.E.E.N Academy - FORWARDED to interview



 

  • Revolution Academy - FORWARDED to interview



   

  • Mebane STEM Academy - NOT forwarded to interview


 

Additionally, the CSAB will conduct its final round of interviews for 2 of 29 applicants proposing to open in 2019-20 on March 5, 2018. Attached below is the approved application timeline and process which details what happens with each phase of the application process for schools proposing to open in 2019-20. The Office of Charter Schools maintains a progress chart on its website to detail decisions made by the CSAB and State Board of Education. 

 
Attachments:     2017 Charter Application Timeline and Process

(pdf, 430kb)


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Reflections from Mr. Alex Quigley, Chair, Charter Schools Advisory Board (CSAB)

 

 

I know that the most recent school shooting in Parkland, FL must be on your mind this week. We come together and  condemn the horrific events that happened there and stand in solidarity and sympathy with the victims and their families. This tragic, horrific event strikes fear and confusion into our hearts. Every parent in our country can and should be able to trust that their child will be safe at school. Every teacher and staff member should see their place of work as a place of the utmost safety, where we are all protected to explore, learn, and grow - physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Events like this shake our optimism because they seem so out of our control. But while we may be shaken, we can’t fall down and give into our fears. We can’t let hatred and anger and violence consume the courage that we all practice each day when we step out of the relative comfort of our own lives and walk alongside our children and their families. We must use this event as motivation to instill in our children and each other the values of empathy, forgiveness, compassion, love, and of course, optimism.

 

I thought it would be appropriate share the words of one of America’s great optimists, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking at the memorial service after four little girls were killed in a bombing in a black church in Birmingham, Alabama. He said they lived meaningful lives, and they died nobly. “They say to each of us,” Dr. King said, “black and white alike, that we must substitute courage for caution. They say to us that we must be concerned not merely with [about] who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers. Their death says to us that we must work passionately and unrelentingly for the realization of the American Dream."

 

“And if one will hold on, he will discover that God walks with him, and that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.”