The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) today approved the charter renewals of three Eastbank Collaborative of Charter School members: the International High School of New Orleans (IHSNO), International School of Louisiana (ISL) and Morris Jeff Community School. IHSNO and Morris Jeff were renewed for six years and ISL was the only school renewed for 10 years at the meeting.
BESE followed the Louisiana Department of Education’s recommendations for the three schools released on November 22. “We are excited that BESE has renewed our charter and validated the important work we are doing here at IHSNO,” said CEO Sean Wilson. “As an open enrollment school offering a full college preparatory curriculum with the exclusive International Baccalaureate Programme (IBP), we understand and embrace the importance of a global education and offer a unique international curriculum that is vital to this city.”
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WHAT: Warren Easton Charter High School is hosting its 6th Annual SAVE Week, a unique educational awareness event focusing on effective ways to prevent and reduce youth violence and bullying. Warren Easton Charter High School and its Student Council will join the Student Council members of Lusher, McMain, St. Augustine and the International High School for this year’s SAVE/No Place for Hate Challenge Day Program.
WHEN: Friday, December 5, 8am-2:30pm *Please call Coach Steve Costa at (504) 239-1931 or (504) 324-7417 or Warren Easton (504) 324-7400x9 if you would like to attend. WHERE: Warren Easton Charter High School, 3019 Canal Street, N.O., LA 70119 (In the Auditorium) WHAT: Young Adult Fiction author Jay Asher will make his one and only stop in Louisiana to Sci High School while on his 50-state anti bullying tour. He will be reading and speaking on selections from his book THIRTEEN REASONS WHY and donating books to the students. In his humble, honest, lightly humorous and unassuming way, Asher will talk to teens about how acutely our actions affect others. How it’s time to take responsibility for our actions. How it’s time to be kind to one another. And how every one of us matters.
WHEN: Tuesday, December 2 11:00am – 1:00pm WHERE: Sci High School 5625 Loyola Ave New Orleans, LA 70115 Young Audiences Charter School Principal Receives Grant to Champion Creativity in Schools11/18/2014 Folwell Dunar is one of 20 elementary and middle school principals from across the nation who has been selected by Crayola and the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) to receive a “Champion Creatively Alive Children” school grant. Dunbar is the School Leader at Young Audiences Charter School in Gretna, Louisiana. Crayola and NAESP together selected 20 schools to receive the grants, which will fund innovative programs aimed at fostering children’s critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication skills.
The Champion Creatively Alive Children grants are intended to help schools build creative capacity, nurture children’s creativity and inspire other schools to do the same. Young Audiences Charter School received a $2,500 monetary grant and $1,000 worth of Crayola products. Dunbar will share outcomes from their program via NAESP’s website and a special Principal Magazine Supplement to help other principals develop promising practices related to arts education. On the morning of Friday, November 21, Sci High will be hosting its 2nd annual Health 360, an interactive fair that highlights physical and emotional wellness, strategies for healthy living and careers in Health Care and STEM fields. The event will take place at Sci High’s campus on 5625 Loyola Ave, New Orleans, LA.
The event, from 8am-noon, will consist of four segments, providing every Sci High student with the opportunity to interact with a panel of health care professionals, participate in group physical activities, attend two Wellness Workshops, and meet with three local professionals. The goal is for students to leave Health 360 with greater understanding of how to strive toward a life style of holistic health and how their current academic course work relates to Health Care and STEM careers. The Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools (LAPCS) and seven Type 2 charter schools won an initial victory in the 19th Judicial District Court of East Baton Rouge when Judge Wilson Fields denied requests by the Louisiana Association of Educators and the Iberville Parish School Board to immediately strip 33 charter schools of their Minimum Foundation Program (MFP) funding and threaten their closure as of November 15.
“The Court today acted in the best interest of public education,” said LAPCS Director Caroline Roemer Shirley. “This is a significant, but ultimately small victory. We have protected 33 charters and their funding for now, but the attack on the 13,000 Louisiana children who attend those schools and their right to attend the public school of their choice is far from over.” What: Students from Sci High will participate in a Dooky Chase Restaurant Research Trip as part of the school’s ongoing Heroes Project celebrating the women heroes of New Orleans for the Tricentennial. The project seeks to engage students in defining what makes a person a hero in a larger society that freely throws around the word "hero." Leah Chase is one of the several women of New Orleans that Sci High students have researched and they will use their visit to the famous restaurant to do further research on the legendary chef for presentations they are working on.
When: Thursday, November 13 FROM WILSON CHARTER SCHOOL
Contact: darius.munchak@wilsoncharterschool.org TO ALL NEWS MEDIA AND INTERESTED PUBLIC Wilson Charter School will resume classes tomorrow, November 12. The school will proceed with its regular Wednesday schedule with a school dismissal time of 2:00pm. Grief counselors will be available for all students. Report card conferences and after school programs are cancelled with the after school programs resuming Thursday, November 13. Please visit http://www.wilsoncharterschool.org or http://www.gofundme.com/wilsoncharter to support the Anderson family. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Anderson family doing this difficult time. CORRECT DONATION INFORMATION FOR BROADMOOR FAMILY FIRE TRAGEDY A family of five, with long ties to Wilson Elementary Charter School, was killed this morning in a fire. Those wanting to help surviving ANDERSON family members can make cash donations only at this time to the following: PREFERRED METHOD OF DONATION: http://www.gofundme.com/wilsoncharter Or checks may be dropped off to the school or mailed to Darius Munchak Andrew H. Wilson Charter School 3617 General Pershing St. New Orleans, LA 70125 The Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools (LAPCS) and Louisiana Appleseed will hold a training on their joint publication Louisiana Charter School Board Legal Handbook which offers free Continuing Legal Education credits. The training is open to attorneys and interested charter school advocates and board members.
The training is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 12, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Baton Rouge law offices of Adams and Reese, Chase North Tower, 450 Laurel St., Suite 1900. |
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