State charter panel endorses latest remote-learning plans
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Cynthia Howell
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July 20, 2021 at 8:34 p.m.
A classroom is shown in this 2015 file photo.
The state’s Charter Authorizing Panel on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to remote-learning plans proposed by seven operators of open-enrollment and conversion charter schools.
This latest group of newly endorsed online learning plans will now go to the Arkansas Board of Education for final approval to operate in the coming 2021-22 school year and for up to two years beyond that.
Approved Tuesday were:
• The recently renamed Founders Classical Academy High in Bentonville and Founders Classical Academy-West Little Rock. Both campuses serve grades seven through 12. The schools were previously Northwest Arkansas Classical Academy and Quest Academy of West Little Rock.
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Class project inspires Palatine fifth grader to publish her own book
By FOX 32 Digital Staff
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A fifth grader ended up writing an entire book after being inspired by a class project.
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Shivani Ganeshan says it started with a class project. Quest Academy
teacher Darrell Maskell asked students to write a book based off popular fantasy stories like The Wizard of Oz and Harry Potter. It was a 15 week project, and I couldn t stop her really, explained Maskell. The words were pouring out of her.
Ganeshan worked at night and on the weekends to write what turned into her book The Sign in the Smoke. It s about four normal fifth graders who accidentally stumble on their science teacher s plot to destroy the world. The kids have to save themselves, each other and the entire world.
Leo Academy brings youth into heart of Lima
By Mackenzi Klemann - mklemann@limanews.com
Leo Academy students have a field day on Town Square. The school, formerly Golden Bridge Academy, moved to Town Square last fall to bring students closer to entrepreneurial action.
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LIMA Kendra Gottschalk had a vision to bring financial literacy and entrepreneurship into the classroom.
After two decades of working as a teacher in Lima schools and the former Quest Academy, Gottschalk accepted a teaching position with Golden Bridge Academy in 2019. She’s now principal of the elementary charter school, which recently changed its name to Leo Academy and relocated to the Cornerstone Building in Town Square, bringing her students within shouting distance of the financial institutions and entrepreneurs Gottschalk wanted to expose her students to before they head off to high school.