After several years of searching for a campus, a bilingual charter school for students entering K-5 will open this fall and it now has its first principal.
Catherine Rodriguez, previously the assistant head of school at Sarasota Military Academy, is Dreamers Academy’s first principal. She also founded a consultancy on dual-language education called Biliteracy Focused Education.
How to apply
The school is taking applications for the 2021-22 school year. Interested families can apply at DreamersAcademy.org.
Rodriguez holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Puerto Rico, a master’s degree in clinical health psychology and counseling from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and a doctorate in education leadership and innovation in higher education from Wilmington University.
In just four months, a school has taken shape on the corner of Wilkinson and McIntosh roads. The future home of the Hershorin-Schiff Community Day School is under construction, with the global pandemic doing nothing to slow it down.
It s been a whirlwind year for Community Day School. In just 11 months, the school raised more than $5.5 million, purchased a nine-acre site and began construction on a 45,000-square-foot facility. This summer, the school will move from its current site at Temple Beth Sholom, and in August the new building will open to the 300 students enrolled at the kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school.
And it all came about because of – not just in spite of – COVID-19.
1 month ago Share After years of struggling to find a location, the dual-language charter expects to open for the 2021-22 school year.
After several years of struggling to find a campus, the bilingual charter school Dreamers Academy has found its new home within the 10-acre Temple Beth Sholom campus.
Now that the school has found a location, it s moving ahead with plans to open for the 2021-22 school year.
The Sarasota County School Board approved the charter school in late 2018 with the idea of opening in time for the 2019-20 school year, but throughout the following three years, school leaders couldn t finalize a location.
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