SALT LAKE CITY — Twelve charter colleges might quickly be part of the Beehive State’s current community after submitting proposals for formal consideration final week.
The proposals shall be thought of and in the end authorized or denied by the State Charter School Board throughout its upcoming evaluation cycle.
Utah is at present house to 139 board-authorized charter colleges, serving over 85,000 college students — 13% of Utah’s public pupil inhabitants.
“Each proposal represents an opportunity to consider a new approach to serving Utah students,” Stephanie Speicher, chair of the State Charter School Board, stated in a press release. “Our responsibility is to carefully evaluate every proposal against rigorous standards for academic quality, governance, financial sustainability, and long-term success before making any recommendation.”
Here’s a breakdown of the 12 proposed charter colleges up for evaluation from northern to southern Utah:
- Azure Fields High School: Proposed Utah County school serving grades 7-12 would develop into Utah’s first Waldorf-inspired excessive school.
- Builder Academy of Utah: Proposed central Salt Lake County excessive school targeted on development trades and profession and technical training.
- Great Hearts Utah: Proposed Ok-8 classical liberal arts school within the Canyons School District and the primary Utah campus of the multistate Great Hearts community.
- Juniper Grove Academy: Proposed Ok-5 hybrid school in southern Utah County, providing versatile scheduling.
- Keystone Academy of the Arts: Proposed Cache County excessive school combining classical training, liberal arts, and a four-day school week.
- Momentum Academy: Proposed Eagle Mountain excessive school emphasizing pupil well-being alongside personalised, mastery-based lecturers.
- PEAK Mastery Charter: Proposed Cache County Ok-12 personalised, competency-based hybrid school that includes each on-site instruction and off-site prolonged studying experiences.
- Philip Fox Academy of Learning: Proposed Midvale Ok-12 school constructed round its LEARN framework: Literacy, Equity, Agency, Relationships, and Neurodevelopment.
- Spectrum Academy: Proposed new campus in Washington County for an current charter school targeted on serving college students with autism.
- Star Lotus Academy: Proposed elementary school within the Nebo School District based mostly on Waldorf instructional ideas.
- Theodore Roosevelt Military Academy: Proposed Salt Lake County center and excessive school utilizing a military-structured instructional mannequin.
- Utah Early College High School: Proposed statewide hybrid excessive school designed to transition college students from on-line faculty preparatory coursework in grades 9 and 10 to full-time faculty enrollment throughout grades 11 and 12.
A launch from the state board famous that proposals are only one step in a multistage evaluation course of every charter school is subjected to earlier than being authorized.
The board will decide in its September assembly which of the proposed colleges, if any, shall be invited to submit a full charter software for consideration through the 2027 approval cycle.
“The board’s application process is designed to ensure that any newly approved charter school has the governance, educational program, operational capacity, and financial foundation necessary for long-term success in serving Utah students,” Stacey Hutchings, govt director of the State Charter School Board, stated in a press release.
