Patrick Henry Charter School Initiative Needs Your Help
The Patrick Henry Charter School is open to any Richmond City elementary student and the upcoming School Board vote, likely to occur on 5/5/08, will impact every child and district within the city limits. They’re asking for your help. See their mailing for all the details: PDF here, Word doc here.
Thanks for posting this. Every parent in the city should show their (and their children’s) faces on the 5th…
The Patrick Henry Charter School Board is made up of extremely talented and dedicated professionals, educators and parents. They are dedicated to serving EVERY SINGLE child regardless of income, race, creed, whatever. Anyone who judges this school as exclusionary has not read the charter or it’s mission statement, nor has he met the board members. What a wonderful opportunity for the Richmond Public School System to break out of the negative cycle they are in. It’s win-win all the way around.
Write your letter TODAY!!
[...] There will be 3 community meetings of note on Monday evening: the Richmond Department of Parks & Recreation will hold a focus group meeting to discuss and exchange ideas on the redesign of the Chimborazo Playground and Recreation area, the RTD will be hosting a “Public Square” on the James River and development, and the School Board will likely be voting on the Patrick Henry Charter School Initiative. [...]
Given that 200 people were expected to come to the School Board meeting in support of the Patrick Henry Charter at 6pm, spineless RPS administrators decided yesterday to schedule the vote and/or discussion to 4:30pm today knowing that parents will be either at work or transporting children at this time.
Actually I got word it was Braxton who decided on the time.
[...] brought this up comments to another post, but I thought it warranted a more prominent mention. The school board discussion on the Patrick [...]