Chancellor Academies Opens Its Fourth Arizona Charter School; Leading Education Group Will Also Operate an Early Learning Center.Business & News Editors/Education Writers SIERRA VISTA Vista (vĭs`tə), uninc. city (1990 pop. 71,872), San Diego co., SW Calif., near the Pacific coast, in an agricultural and resort area; inc. 1963. , Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001 Coconut Grove-based Chancellor Academies, (www.chancelloracademies.com), today announced plans to open a fourth charter school site in the state of Arizona Arizona (âr'əzō`nə), state in the southwestern United States. It is bordered by Utah (N), New Mexico (E), Mexico (S), and, across the Colorado R., Nevada and California (W). . The Chancellor Charter School at Sierra Vista will serve 275 students, K-8, and the Chancellor Early Learning Center will serve 150 children, ages six weeks to six years old. "We are pleased to continue our expansion of serving the students and parents in this state. Arizona is a very significant part of our company's mission to provide quality education in schools across this country," said John J-H Kim, Chief Executive Officer, Chancellor Academies. The Sierra Vista school brings to four the number of charter schools that will open under the Chancellor name beginning in the fall of 2001. Three of those schools are currently under construction in the Greater Phoenix area: two in North Phoenix (Bell Canyon and Cortez Park) and a third in Gilbert. Chancellor will provide transportation, maintain small class sizes of no more than 25 children per classroom and will integrate technology into its proprietary, theme-based curriculum. Chancellor teachers are certified See certification. and receive ongoing training throughout the school year. Chancellor will also offer before and after care for kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be children. "We are confident that our curriculum, our management practices and our ongoing emphasis on professional development are among the best in the country", said Dr. Nancy Hall, Vice-President of Arizona Operations for Chancellor Academies. "We're looking forward to providing educational leadership to the Sierra Vista community. Dr. Hall further commented, "Our pledge to parents is to hold our teachers to a higher standard of performance and accountability so children achieve their personal best. We are so committed to this principle that if a child does not advance at least one reading grade level equivalent within the school year, Chancellor will provide supplemental instruction free of charge. That's the Chancellor Commitment." "That's a promise parents can feel good about when enrolling their students in a Chancellor charter school," said Marge Dailey, Director of the Chancellor Early Learning Center. "I'm very impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: with the experience and integrity this company is already displaying in our community," she added. The new Chancellor Charter School at Sierra Vista is located at 1746 Paseo San Luis San Luis, city (1991 pop. 110,353), capital of San Luis prov., W central Argentina. The city is the commercial center of an area producing cattle, corn, and asparagus; the surrounding area has timber and mineral resources. San Luis is a popular resort. and the Chancellor Early Learning Center is located at 1764 Paseo San Luis, Sierra Vista, Arizona Sierra Vista is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, USA. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 41,908.[1] Fort Huachuca, a U.S. Army base, is located just northwest of the city. , 85635. About Chancellor Academies Chancellor Academies, Inc., is a leading manager of high-quality, public charter schools and independent private schools from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. Based in Coconut Grove, Florida, Chancellor Academies, Inc., has developed a competency-based curriculum that integrates basic skills with creative thinking and delivers technologically advanced instruction in a small class size setting. Currently, Chancellor Academies manages or consults for 17 schools, serving 48-hundred students in Florida, Arizona, Virginia Virginia, state, United States Virginia, state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE). and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . Chancellor Academies' major investor is Warburg Pincus Warburg Pincus is a private equity firm with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. It has been a leading private equity investor since 1971. The firm currently has approximately $14 billion under management, and invests in a range of industries including information and Ventures, the oldest and one of the largest investment firms in the country. For enrollment information, please contact Sonal Agarwal at 602-896-4602. |
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