Midland Innovation + Technology Charter School Secures Major Funding
New charter school initiative receives support from Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools, PGT Trucking, and C.J. Betters
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MIDLAND, Pa., May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The development and launch of a new public charter high school is taking several leaps forward this week, as Midland Innovation + Technology Charter School (MITCS) announced it is receiving a major grant and two significant donations that will further its work.
On Monday, the Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools (PCPCS) revealed MITCS as one of three sub-grantees who may receive as much as $1.5 million each through Pennsylvania s Charter School Program (PACSP) Grant. This award marks the inaugural year of the grant award that will support the development, expansion and replication of 18 high-quality public schools in Pennsylvania over a grant period of five years (2021-25)
It s the highest award a Cadette (sixth-, seventh- or eighth-grader) can earn.
A Silver Award project has to have a long-lasting effect and make the world a better place, and involve a minimum of 50 hours of volunteer work, among several other guidelines.
The Duncan sisters, students at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, wrote letters and called several landscaping places and got several items donated. Home Depot donated several hundred dollars worth of plants, shrubs, trees and mulch for their project. Brodhead Landscaping also donated to their cause, as well as Lowe s. Even Aliquippa s zoning officer, Jim Bologna, donated.
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Choirs from six Pittsburgh-area high schools will join Pittsburgh Concert Chorale for a special online performance of Mozart’s “Requiem” in memory of lives lost to covid-19.
Participating schools include Mt. Lebanon, Seneca Valley, Shaler Area, South Fayette, Upper St. Clair and Woodland Hills, along with a smaller group of singers from Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School.
“It’s our gift to the community,” said Susan Medley, PCC music director. “Covid has impacted every life in some way, but there are so many whose lives will never be the same.”
Liberty s Lions: The Catholic Revolutionaries Who Established America by Dan LeRoy
The Midland author, a journalist and faculty member at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, provides the historical account of the Catholics who helped lead the American Revolution. The 12-chapter book profiles statesmen, thinkers and military leaders instrumental in founding our nation. The book contends that the Revolution was an event fundamentally shaped by the beliefs and experiences of American Catholics.
Available on March 23 through Sophia Institute Press, the book will sell for $18.95 in paperback from amazon.com
LeRoy has authored three other books, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, The Village Voice and Esquire online. Since 2006, he has been the director of the Writing and Publishing Department at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School in Midland.
Angela serves as Vice President of The Feulner Institute at The Heritage Foundation. For African Americans, learning and knowledge has been and continues to be the drumline of survival and success. Klaus Vedfelt / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
Charter schools have been tremendously successful in helping minority students get a quality education.
Self-destructive behaviors don’t seem to flourish in schools rooted in a vision of achieving excellence and writing a legacy of purpose.
Too often, students find themselves consigned to public schools, mired in a defeatist vision of low-expectations, victimhood and resignation.
For African Americans, learning and knowledge has been and continues to be the drumline of survival and success.