Rose Academy Graduates
- Congratulations to Rachel Bennett Yanof, school director of Phoenix Collegiate Academy, who was named as a “40 under 40” award winner by the Phoenix Business Journal. The award recognizes “40 of the Valley’s super professionals under the age of 40.” Other recipients include Arizona state representative Chad Campbell and the Phoenix Coyotes – Coyotes Charities’ Sarah Finecey.
- Who would have thought??!!! The U.S. Department of Education wins a top award…from the Center for Plain Language. The Department received the Grand ClearMark Award May 22nd at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, for “a clear, concise online brochure” explaining how to interpret education statistics. The brochure, produced by the Department’s National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress, was designed to help parents, teachers, journalists, policymakers, researchers, and others interested in education easily understand the relevance of education statistics.
- Arizona’s alternative education charter schools received a huge boost May 21st with State Board of Education approval of an alternative school parallel accountability model. The Board approved each of its subcommittee’s recommendations. Look for more information in future Charter School Monthly “Alternatively Speaking” columns.
- BASIS Schools Inc. goes to Washington! The much-heralded group of Arizona charter schools will open a new site in the nation’s capital this fall. BASIS DC has been holding intensive afterschool and weekend tutoring sessions in four locations since February, with 40 percent of the school’s 468 open-enrollment students already participating. According to the Washington Examiner, preliminary results indicate that students already have advanced more in five weeks of tutoring than in an entire year at DC Public Schools.
- Carpe Diem goes to Indiana! The highly recognized Carpe Diem Schools will open a campus and virtual school for Indiana students for the 2012-2013 school year. As stated in a recent Arizona Charter Schools Association update, the Indiana expansion will provide Hoosier students and their parents with a high-performance option to traditional schools with Carpe Diem’s proven educational model for success.
- Five Rose Academy graduates were honored as scholarship recipients at the schools’ commencement ceremony. They are Christopher Araiza (Desert Rose Academy), Ashley Cashin (Canyon Rose Academy), Shelby Crisp (Mountain Rose Academy), Samantha Martin (Pima Rose Academy), and Adilene Rubio (Desert Rose Academy. The students have big career plans, including elementary school teacher, nurse, Army doctor, and missionary.
- Arizona’s charter schools were well represented in the recently released U.S. News & World Report annual “Best High Schools” list for the top charter high schools in the country. BASIS Tucson came in at number one. Other Arizona charter high schools and their rankings on the list: Northland Preparatory Academy (16), Sonoran Science Academy – Tucson, 25; Flagstaff Arts & Leadership Academy (34), Luz-Guerrero Early College High School (95), Horizon Community Learning Center (102), and North Pointe Preparatory Academy (107).
- Congratulations, Jaccquelyn Power, principal at Akimel O’Otham Pee Posh Charter School, Inc., whose school won a national Title I distinguished school award at the national Title I meeting and who was also named “Distinguished Principal of the Year.”
