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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2007 Durango Herald
After more than a year of planning, a five member board of community minded parents has gained the approval of the State's Charter Institute to move forward with plans to open a new, small high school for Durango area students next August.
Much more work now lies ahead to make the dream a reality. Interested families and students can contact organizers through the Animas High School website.
Read more the educational philosophy and research behind this proposal.
Congratulations and thanks to the committee for their hard work in creating this opportunity for Durango families.
8 comments:
Great news about AHS withdrawing their application from 9R. Now they can get on with the work in hand, and create their vision, without having all those administrative naysayers dooming the project with their negative outlook on charter school's.
Healthy competition might bring up the standards at DHS. On the other hand, maybe DHS just don't care.
I'm looking forward to the new high school.
Today's Herald said the District 9-R was considering appealing the Charter Institutes Approval. I believe a good enough reason to withdraw the application from them.
Where does Uroda get the $960,000? Many of these prospective students will be from Ignacio and Bayfield. She and Mary just continue to distort the truth and the facts. Does the question of WHY new alternative schools are popping up all over the county ever come to mind for these people? By throwing the $960,000 figure out there 9-R is attempting to blame AHS for all their problems. Give me a break!
Congratulations to all responsible for AHS.
The Herald has a poll. Will AHS succeed? So far the Yes vote is winning.
Only THREE people show up for the search team's public meeting? Could bureaucrats just once look with a critical eye at how effectively they're using tax dollars? Wonder how Press Office will spin this information... we have stopped caring in important ways and someone should start asking why. The current unscientific polls would suggest that Herald readers suspect our current super was overpaid. Big time. Hey everyone, let's send out our own call to friends everywhere... Durango is a great place to live - getting greater all the time... a new fresh visionary superintendent is exactly what we need!
Only 9% of Herald readers see Dr.Barter's salary level appropriate for the next superintendent. Good for them. The more we pay someone, the more we treat them as royalty - and ourselves as nonentities.
All the talk about "aligning standards with CSAP" as if it were a new big idea! I want a real educator - someone unafraid of teaching and classrooms - someone who knows all kinds of young people - not just the high achievers. Today's kids aren't the kids of yesterday. We have big problems we can't ignore.
Let's insist on someone with a dynamic personality tons of energy, a positive open attitude and big ideas to share with the whole community.
We need more time for teaching, not testing and recordkeeping! We could sure use trained volunteers - we need a community leader who wants partners in the schools.. it matters when we lose our aides! If the next super has classroom experience he or she could really understand how much these things matter. Are we looking locally at any leaders? Just my 2 cents.
I want a leader who doesn't just think that our dyslexic students brush by the book and learn to read.
I want someone who leads with their heart as well as their head.
We need a Super who is progressive.
Not afraid to help children even if is against Policy. Someone who has been in the classroom, someone who can communicate with Parents and not patronize, ignore, put down. A Superintendent who cares about every student and not just their own reputation and aspirations of retiring in beautiful Durango. Students First.
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