Two Applicants Present in Jeffco

Tonight two applicants presented their charter applications to the Jeffco Board of Education. Global Outreach Academy is a proposed K-8 school in Arvada, which would primarily serve Slavic families. The school would be modeled after another charter school operating in California. The school would not provide bilingual education, but would have bilingual teachers and target students whose primary language is not English.

The second applicant was for a replication of the Lotus School for Excellence in Aurora. The school would focus on math, science and technology and serve grades 4-7 initially, but K-12 eventually. There is a new principal at the Aurora campus this year who recently came from a sister charter school in San Diego, the Magnolia School. The presenters said that school served 80% Free/Reduced Lunch qualifying students and had a 0% dropout rate.