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North Miami Beach's council swooned with excitement over a passed resolution that would lay the groundwork for a K-8 charter school in the city.
Councilman John Julien thanked a representative from Mater Academy Inc., the organization that would oversee the operation of the school, for making the council's ``wildest dreams come true.''
FLORIDA – January 24, 2010 -- Just days after a devastating earthquake shattered Haiti, students at Somerset Academy Charter Schools in Texas and South Florida began fundraising efforts to aid those affected by the disaster. Other local charter schools in South Florida also launched fundraising initiatives, and secured a $20,000 donation match from Academica – a charter school service provider. By Monday, January 25th the charter school students, faculty and administrators had raised $34,942, bringing the total donation to $54,942.
Miami-Dade County, FL -- Mater Academy Charter Middle School in Hialeah Gardens has been named a Breakthrough School by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) and MetLife Foundation. The MetLife Foundation-NASSP Breakthrough Schools program recognizes middle level and high schools that are high achieving or are dramatically improving student achievement and serve large numbers of students living in poverty.
A Miami-based management company with a record of helping schools in low- income areas earn top grades was hired by the city of Palm Bay to oversee Patriot Charter.
The city council voted Tuesday night to have Academica take over for Charter Schools USA effective immediately.
The Archdiocese of Miami is working with Academica, South Florida's largest charter school management company, to convert six Catholic schools it plans to close in June into nonreligious charter schools by the fall.
The Mater Gardens Academy Charter School is a 58,000-square-foot facility in Miami-Dade County, Fla. The school was completed in August in 2007 and is designed to accommodate up to 800 students. The school is situated within a planned residential community and was built as part of the developer's requirement to mitigate the projected student-station needs of residents.
The Mater Academy Performing Arts Pavilion is a 33,000-sqaure-foot facility in Hialeah Gardens, Fla. The building is adjacent to Mater Academy Charter High School's main campus, and provides classroom and performing-arts support for the existing school. The facility is composed of 22 conventional classrooms, a drama room, multimedia lab and 200-seat lecture/multimedia hall.
A charter high school in Pembroke Pines did something few schools can boast about — had 100 percent of the senior class graduate and earn more than $1.1 million in scholarships.
All 105 seniors at Somerset Academy Charter High School will attend colleges across the country this fall, including Rutgers, Duke and Boston universities. Students earned $1,121,874 in scholarships from Florida's Bright Futures program as well as academic awards from schools.
MIAMI, FL, June 2008 - Academica, one of the largest, high-performing charter school service and support organizations in the country, announced that Mater Academy Charter High School was listed among the nation’s top 1,300 high schools, as reported by Newsweek Magazine’s recent ranking of “America’s Top Public High Schools.”
Mater Academy – a public charter school which serves predominantly Hispanic families - - was ranked number 228, placing it in the top 1% of public high schools across the nation. Newsweek compiled this list out of more than 18,000 public high schools in the country, evaluating each institutions graduation rates, percentage of students passing advanced placement (AP) exams, and participation in dual enrollment courses.
Judith Marty no admite fallas, y es una fiel creyente de que el esfuerzo es una vía segura para obtener éxito en los estudios y en la vida.
Frank Jiménez no acepta la mediocridad, y considera que tener buenos maestros es una de las claves que determina la reputación de una escuela.
Ambos dirigen Mater Academy y Doral Academy, respectivamente, las únicas dos escuelas charter (semiprivadas) de la Florida incluidas entre las 500 mejores secundarias de la nación por la prestigiosa publicación U.S. News & World Repor
According to the US News & World Report edition released December 10, 2007, Doral Academy High School and Mater Academy Charter High in Miami are two of the best schools in the nation.
These predominantly Hispanic public charter schools are listed among the "Best 400 High Schools in the Nation" in the December issue of US News & World Report. A total of six Miami-Dade County high schools were named Gold and Silver Award schools. Just 28 schools in Florida are listed among the Best High Schools. Doral High and Mater High - the school with the highest percentage of minority and disadvantaged students in Florida to make the list - were also the only Florida charter schools to make the list.
About 92,000 students in private, taxpayer-funded schools have equal and, in some cases, more academic success than their counterparts in traditional public schools, according to a report marking the 10-year anniversary of the charter school movement.
