You need to check with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to open your own charter entity/school. Currently, the charter school laws in North Carolina are restrictive and limit how many charter schools may open in a period of five years. There are strict guidelines to opening your own school and you must abide by federal law or public law when addressing the needs of special education students.

I was a prinicpal of a charter school for four years and I can personally tell you that operating a charter is very challenging. I respect your desire and appreciate your sincerity in helping kids achieve academically. You may want to contact other charter entities and join a charter school organization to obtain ideas about best practices. You will need a vision and mission to begin your process; also a running and well established philosophy of education is advantageous. Many charter operators have a vision and a mission but there philosophy of education is wanting and lacks a general grounding in human cognition and learning.

You will need more than a calling; you will need money. Many charter operators spend much of their own cash: mortgaging their homes, loans, and other assets to begin building their school(s). Some states will give you start up funds but on condition that you have a safe environment and a sound business organization before funds flow.

I would direct you to New York States Charter School planning guide found at the New York State Department of Education website; there is a link below. It is a comprehensive description of what you’ll need in order to begin your planning. It is a good resource and from there you may get other resources. Enclosed below are other resources for you, including the federal government Department of Education guidelines and best practices. Good Luck!!

Check with your State Department of Education about setting up a Charter School. They will be very helpful with sending you information (request information for both Charter and alternative schools). You might also check with the Focus on the Family group as they have a lot of information on homeschooling and alternative methods of private education. They are extremely helpful and informative. Most of all you will have to work on a plan of what you will be teaching, how you will teach it and what your funding needs will be. The planning is important because you will need to have funding from many sources.

you ought to make confident that whichever college you’re taking your toddler to is authorised by between the main accreditation companies (U.S.). This accreditation technique guarantees that your toddler is discovering in an environment the place the highschool degree would be well-known at any college. A non-authorised degree is greater often than not no longer well-known at universities subsidized by the state (in California those are the UC or Cal-State faculties) and actually some deepest faculties require that the degree be from an authorised severe college. you moreover would desire to ask to confirm the college’s SAT, ACT, and PSAT rankings for the final 5 years. they must have this data handy for you. you may examine their well-known against the nationwide averages to confirm if their tutorial application is above or under familiar.

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Amy Davis

you should start with just a few grades and as they move up add on. i would start with K-3 then keep adding on with that class. A high school near me did that. they only had freshman until they moved up.

honestly. i don’t think that’s a very good idea. unless you have tons of financial means. honestly, prep schools live on their reputation. the alumni is where it’s at. my dad went there, his dad, his dad and now my dad donates millions to the school.

you know what i mean. i think it’s going to be a lot of hard work and the outcome might not be very good. just playing devils advocate. sorry

I would start with a preschool/daycare type setting, and then ‘grow up’ your clientele.