The community can support Tempe's James Madison Preparatory School, a public charter school, 4-8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30 by shopping at Fresh and Easy, 425 W. Baseline Road, Tempe.

Horizon Community Learning Center, a public charter school, will host four orientation meetings for families interested in enrolling for the 2012-13 school year. Parents will learn about the school and the lottery admission process.

When examining the percentage of public school students in charter schools, Arizona has led the nation for years.

Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, a nationally accredited, publicly funded charter school, is opening two new EduCenters, one in Mesa and one in Scottsdale, to join the school's other two EduCenters in Yuma and San Tan Valley.

Skyrocketing property values could soon shut future charter schools out of Scottsdale. The cost of moving in is forcing at least one school leader to reconsider whether the city is the best place for his nationally recognized program.

Skyrocketing property values could soon shut future charter schools out of Scottsdale. The cost of moving in is forcing at least one school leader to reconsider whether the city is the best place for his nationally recognized program.

The Tribune long has supported the principle that to improve performance in our education system, top-notch teachers must be rewarded commensurately in their compensation. And Arizona has made impressive strides in that regard.

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Mesa Preparatory Academy teacher Rebekah Kienenberger has been awarded a grant by the Association of American Educators Foundation for an inquiry-based learning project. Kienenberger plans to have her students build a water filter to purify polluted drinking water.

For those of you who still think charter schools aren’t for-profit organizations, the groups combining to put up a new Happy Valley charter in Queen Creek are Gratton Investments and Happy Valley Schools Inc.! Sound like a group that may be a bit concerned about making money for their officers? You bet! My daughter went to public schools in Chandler, and got her doctorate in pharmacy at age 23. It’s the student and parents that will make a student successful, not a profit-making group with self interests!

Legacy Elementary School began enrollment Wednesday, Feb. 1 for the 2012-13 school year. Legacy School, a kindergarten through eighth-grade campus located at 7618 E. University Drive in Mesa, is a free, public charter school that uses Core Knowledge for its curriculum.

Kudos to The Tribune for its reports on well-performing charter schools. However, please don’t forget to mention James Madison Preparatory School, a charter school in Tempe (7th through 12th grade located on McClintock north of Guadalupe).

Parents have a choice when it comes to where they want to send their kids to school. These days they can choose to send them to any number of public, private, and even virtual schools. But some of the time, their first choice isn't where their child ends up.

The Arizona Department of Education honored 18 districts and charter schools this week during its Leading Change Conference in Tucson.

San Tan Learning Center, a public charter school, will hold an open house 9:30 a.m. Friday on its campus, 1475 S. Higley Road, Gilbert.

ASU’s Preparatory Academy-Polytechnic, a public charter school, is holding information sessions for next school year. The next meeting will be 6 p.m. Feb. 7 at the elementary campus, 6859 E. Rembrandt Ave., Mesa. Information: (480) 727-5750 or asuprep.asu.edu/

San Tan Learning Center, a public charter school in Gilbert, will hold its next open house 9:30 a.m. Friday morning, on the campus, 1475 S. Higley Road. Information: www.SanTanLearningCenter.com

In a quiet classroom, 25 students sit in desks, heads down, working on the day's writing assignment, a compare/contrast essay about men and women.

A nonprofit group set up by the Mesa Unified School District to open a charter school will not move forward with the plans next school year.

Employees cannot use federal civil rights laws to sue the owners of Arizona charter schools, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday.