stevecat
Member since Feb 2, 2011
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Re: “Soulsville Charter School Plans for First High School Graduation”
"Do they recieve any significant private funding?
How do you account for their success? Smaller school? Is this a hand-picked student body? More involved parents? What do you think?"
They work hard to raise money every day. And yes, it is a smaller school with about 500 students in 6 - 12 grades. The student body is not hand-picked. Students have to meet certain TN state criteria (two grades behind in school, qualify for free lunch program, others) and they apply. Their names are placed into a lottery just like being put in a hat and the school has no say so in who gets selected.
I think they are successful because they have a long school day, 7:45 - 4:30 and they are very, very careful about hiring teachers for whom teaching is not so much a job as it is a calling. They are also very strong on discipline and organization, and they preach nothing but college, college, college in every aspect of what they do.
Re: “Soulsville Charter School Plans for First High School Graduation”
"TN report card says that only 17% of these kids can pass the math EOC and 33% can pass the reading. No advanced courses are taught in this high school."
Homer, The Soulsville Charter School teaches AP English, AP algebra, trigonometry, and calculus; AP biology, AP Latin, and AP U.S history.
Re: “Soulsville Charter School Plans for First High School Graduation”
The Soulsville Charter School doesn't receive one penny more in per-pupil funding or any other funding than any Memphis City School. That is the law.
Re: “Soulsville Charter School Plans for First High School Graduation”
And the more than $3.5 million in collective scholarship funds were earned by the students, who, by way, are attending Wesleyan, Vanderbilt, U.T. Knoxville, Tuskegee, Connecticut College, Berklee College of Music, U of M, and many other fine schools.
Re: “Stuffed”
I saw that same cool pot and wanted it but I've paid less for used cars!
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