Posts Tagged ‘American Indian Public High School’
Awaiting a charter appeal, AIMS community finishes school year, uncertain of the future
The American Indian Model Schools (AIMS) community is counting down until the last day of school, June 30, which could be the last day of classes for the controversial three-school charter organization.
Read MoreAt AIMS meeting, few answers on the future of the schools’ leadership
It may have been the shortest school board meeting in recent history.
Read MoreAn AIMS graduate returns to help her school through challenging times
Karely Ordaz remembers the first time she realized that good grades had good consequences. She was an eighth grader at Oakland Charter Academy and she had just found out that she was one of ten middle school students chosen for an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C. “Never in my wildest dreams as an eighth grader did I think I’d be able to go to the capitol for free just because I had good grades,” she recalls. “That’s when I decided that I’d keep doing it.”
Read MoreAmerican Indian Model Schools file response to allegations of financial, organizational misconduct
Administrators at the American Indian Model Schools—a set of three Oakland charter schools, two middle schools and one high school—responded late Monday night to a 1,080-page notice of violations given to them by the Oakland Unified School District, OUSD spokesperson Troy Flint said Wednesday.
Read MoreSchool board considers charter petitions for two schools in East Oakland
As part of a packed agenda, on Wednesday night the Oakland school board heard presentations from two East Oakland charter schools hoping the board will grant them charter approval: American Indian Public High School and Aspire – College Academy.
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