Rowan Academy, the county’s only state charter school, will open for the 2001-2002 school year on Aug. 7.
The school’s Parent Teacher Association will sponsor an open house on Aug. 1 at 6:30 p.m. It is open to the public.
Charter schools fall under the jurisdiction of the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and are supported with taxpayer money. But the schools operate independent of many of the rules governing other public school systems.
At Rowan Academy, students wear uniforms, and parent participation is mandatory. Bus service is provided for students, and after-school service is available.
The school is located at 1010 Airport Road and expects to have about 120 children enrolled in kindergarten through grade 6.
The school has a staff of 12 teachers, Headmaster Eugene Perry Jr., two maintenance employees and Administrative Assistant Barbara Mallett.
Rowan Academy recently received a $50,000 state grant to evaluate its curriculum and offer its teachers more training.
The first of a three-year program, the grant will be used to implement an education reform program developed by Yale University’s Child Study Center. The program has involved about 700 schools throughout the world.
“Rather than looking at our problems and trying to deal with them piecemeal, we decided to attack them all at once,” Headmaster Perry told the Post recently. “ ... Over the next four to five years ... we fully expect to see a steady and consistent improvement among our students in the core subjects of reading, writing and math.”
During the coming school year, a consultant from Yale University will periodically visit the school.
For more information, call 704-630-9200.
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