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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been toying with the idea of starting a small charter school for 6-9th graders in Alexandria (approx. 200 kids total) that would be academically rigorous, highly disciplined, and focus on traditional learning methods/approaches.  I suspect that a lot of Alexandria parents would wlecome this, but I fear the idea would it be dead on arrival at the school board.  I don't know the politics of our board members, but wouldn't they have to admit that too many parents abandon ACPS b/c of dissatisfaction with the middle school situation, and that giving folks another public option would be a good thing?

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I broached this with members of council a couple of years ago. Exactly what you're talking about. Dead on arrival. No one on the board is going to allow resources to be siphoned off from ACPS for this sort of venture...

There are only like four charter schools in the state of Virginia. All are in like Newport News or Richmond, and they're all for black girls (or at least there were).

There was the Alexandria Academy that opened up that sort of followed this model, but T.R. Ahlstrom is a huckster and it went belly up before the end of the year in 2011.[/quote]

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