Charter Schools in Little Rock (work, health, ethnic)

[ccarter1]

We are an educational group working with a local Little Rock non-profit group to develop an open enrollment charter school that will use the performing and communication arts to develop poor readers in learning and reading competence and in content skill and development.

Although we are proposing a target population of special education students, poor readers, poor learners, and students who have had a hard time succeeding in traditional public school settings, we will (if approved) be an open enrollment school, open to students and families in the vicinity regardless of the circumstances of the students. Our school will teach the European masters (art) with a healthy dosage of artists from a variety of ethnic groups. Students will take instrumental and vocal music, participate in poetry sessions, dramas, create newspapers and magazines, and use the media of music, visual art, and drama to create productions that represent the content they are learning and that demonstrate their emerging development as language users.

We are interested in getting feedback from Little Rock citizens about their views on specialized charter schools such as the one we described above that uses the arts to open students' learning channels and to ensure that they master language skills as they learn and grow in content knowledge.

So what do you think, Little Rock? Is there a need for a school that provides hope to special education students? poor readers? poor learners? students who have historically failed?

I invite you to share your thoughts!

Thanks.

ccarter1

[kh501]

My child is dyslexic and not doing well in public schools. The ony charter school in Centra Arkansas is geared toward high achieving students. I would very much welcome an enviroment where my nine year old could thrive.