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• For 8th grade reading 99.3 percent of our students met
standard with 81.8 percent commended. For 8th grade math
99.3 percent of our students met standard with 60.8 percent
commended. For 5th grade reading 96.5 percent of our
students met standard with 70.4 percent commended. For
5th grade math 97.7 percent of our students met standard
with 82.9 percent commended.
• Dawn Burkholder and Julie Hills were selected to be trained
as a PYP site visitors. If that weren’t impressive enough, I
also learned that Shehnaz Wadhwania was also selected to
be trained as a MYP site visitor
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The Computer Science team placed 2nd
Reggie Du
Frances Schommer
Ebin Neduvelil
Joachim Valdez
The Science team placed 2nd , advances to the State Meet as Wild Card
Subhang Acharya
Ranna Al-Dossari
Reggie Du
Zach Walters
Individual medals were awarded to:
Joachim Valdez won 1st place in Computer Science, advances to the State Meet
Umang Parikh won 1st place in Feature Writing, advances to the State Meet
Reggie Du won 3rd place in Science
Reggie Due won 4th place in Computer Science
Nathan Miller tied for 4th Place in Current Issues
Zach Walters tied for 5th place in Science
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Summer School
Middle School Summer School: ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies
Location: Williams Prep or Hampton Prep
Dates: June 6 – June 30, Monday thru Friday
Time: 8 am – 10 am or 10 am to 12 pm (if student needs to make up one class)
8 am – 12 pm (if student needs to make up two classes)
Supervised Study: will be free of cost if a student needs to stay from 8am to 12 pm due to
transportation issues
Cost: $150 (1 class)
$250 (2 classes)
High School Summer School: ALL Mathematics
Location: Williams Prep or Hampton Prep
Dates: June 6 – July 1, Monday thru Friday
Time: 8 am – 2 pm (lunch provided 11:30 am – 12 pm)
Cost: $200 (each semester)
Grades: students will be given a report card Uplift will post grades to PowerSchool
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Summer School
High School Summer School: ALL English, Science, Social Studies
Location: Home Uplift Campus using Texas Virtual School
Dates: June 6 – July 1, Monday thru Friday
Time: 8 am – 2 pm
Cost: $200 (each semester)
Grades: each campus will monitor/post its own grades
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Funding
• Still don’t have firm numbers due to timing and personnel
being away from school but all indicators indicate more
parents participating in payment of fees and Panther Parent
Fund. We are in the process of developing our budget for
next year and still are on track to hold salaries at least steady
and no lay offs.
• On-line auction for VIP and the golf tournament sponsored by
the Panther Dads are going on and need support.
• We are working on expanding our alumni outreach through
two ways: Have invited them to golf tournament and are
working on a plan to reach out to them in the fall. Also have
a counselor who will be working part time on newest
graduates.
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Advocacy
• The rally in Austin is still on for May 4th – Sign up with Kelly
by Friday. There will be a bus to pick up at 7
• We still need parents to advocate for access to the
permanent school fund and flat funding for charter schools
with their House Representative.
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