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Archived School News - 2006-2007 Archived News by School Year Latest News | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 7-2-07 Coming soon to a town near you... PALCS Informational Sessions! PALCS would like to invite you to one of our informational meetings this summer! Please visit the palcs.org main page for the location, date and time of a meeting near you! ------------------------------------------------------------ 6-22-07 PSSA Test Results are Coming! PALCS will receive PSSA testing results in late August - results will be mailed to families after September 7th. Thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------ 6-16-07 Congratulations, Graduates! The faculty and staff of the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School would like to extend our sincere and jubilant congratulations to the Class of 2007! 120 PALCS students received diplomas at the commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 16, 2007, hosted at the Lancaster Mennonite School. An additional 80 students who could not attend the ceremony will also receive diplomas, bringing our total 2007 graduating class to 200, pending final approval. Please click here to view our commencement program. Images and speeches from the ceremony will be available here on palcs.org shortly! For a preview, see the “cap toss” image in the header above! Best of luck to the PALCS Class of 2007! ------------------------------------------------------------ 6-8-07 PALCS Honors NHS / NJHS Inductees PALCS would like to honor our newest inductees to National Honor Society and National Junior Honor Society: NHS:
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------------------------------------------------------------ 6-7-07 PALCS Teacher Named one of Nation's Most Innovative at Library of Congress in Washington DC Lisa Quinn, teacher of the PALCS Leadership Program, was one of twelve educators honored at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC on the evening of Wednesday, June 6. The gala was to present the "2007 Cable's Leaders in Learning Award," created by Cable in the Classroom, the national education foundation of the US cable industry. Quinn was honored for organizing the March 2007 Millennium Ambassadors Program trip of twenty-two 8th - 12th grade students to Panama, where they lived with, learned from and taught Ngobe Bugle Indians. For doing so, Quinn received the "Pushing the Envelope with Cable Technology and Programming" award, specifically for the use of broadband Internet connectivity connected to PALCS. Only two educators in the nation win this annual award. Click here to visit the Awards' website and view the other eleven winners of these prestigious awards. Images and large, broadcast-ready videos of the event are also available. Images from the PALCS Panama Trip will be available soon in our upcoming digital photo album. ------------------------------------------------------------ 6-5-07 Essay Contest Winners Thirteen students in grades 4-12 participated in an essay contest this spring on the subject “How PALCS Changed my Life.” The students listed below were selected as essay winners and will receive Barnes and Noble gift certificates. All students received certificates of participation. The essays will be added to a book being created about PALCS students. Additionally, portions of essays may be published on palcs.org in the coming months. We thank all our participants and congratulate the following winners!
------------------------------------------------------------ 5-29-07 PALCS Student Travelogue: New York, Quebec and Beyond! From Monday, May 14 - Wednesday, May 16, 2007, fourteen PALCS Seniors and several employee chaperones took New York City by storm in the first PALCS Senior Trip. Highlights of the trip included shopping on 5th Avenue, visiting the Empire State Building Observatory, going to Ellis Island, seeing “Beauty and the Beast” on Broadway, and visiting the United Nations, among other great sight-seeing activities. Read all about the Senior Trip here. Additionally, twelve PALCS students and chaperones, including two parents, French teacher Mrs. Crisafio and Leadership program instructor Mrs. Quinn, traveled to Quebec, Canada for one week, from May 20 - 27. The trip was a language immersion experience, with students actively speaking the French language with homestay families, in classes, and out on the town. Click here to read about the French class trip. Today, Tuesday, May 29, even more PALCS students and chaperones are heading to Egypt for an eight-day trip. Follow along at the PALCS Egypt Trip Blog. ------------------------------------------------------------ 5-1-07 Draft Budget Available The PALCS 2007-2008 draft budget is now available for review. Please contact the school at 610-701-3333 for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------ 4-29-07 Upcoming PALCS Performing and Fine Arts Events All are welcome to the following three events! Upper School Spring Music Concert -- Tuesday, May 8th, 7:00-8:00 pm at the Center for Performing and Fine Arts. Lower School Spring Music Concert -- Wednesday, May 9th, 7:00-8:00 pm at the Center for Performing and Fine Arts. Center for Performing and Fine Arts Spring Student ART SHOW and Reception -- Thursday, May 17th, 4:00-7:00 pm at the Center for Performing and Fine Arts in West Chester. Also, the theatre department of the Center for Performing and Fine Arts presents a world premiere murder mystery comedy, “SHIMMERING SLOPES,” May 22-25, 2007, 7 pm, at the Center for Performing and Fine Arts in West Chester. Tickets are $10.00. Call 610-430-6525 x1230 for tickets and information. ------------------------------------------------------------ 4-27-07 PALCS Near Space Balloon Launch: Ready, Set and waiting to Go! Mr. Alan Hutto and Ms. Yassara Antar, teachers at the PA Leadership Charter School, with Mr. Harry Bryant and other volunteers from the New Jersey Battleship Amateur Radio Club will be launching the second PALCS Near Space Balloon from the Samuel S. Lewis State Park near Wrightsville, PA on Friday, May 4th, 2007 at approximately 9:00 am. Students and individuals near the ground track of the balloon's flight path will be able to tune in to channel 59 on the VHF TV (not cable or satellite) channels to view the feed from an onboard camera. Everyone will be able to follow the progress of the PALCS Near Space Balloon via the Web by going to http://map.findu.com/nj2bb-11. Information, videos, and pictures from last year's flight can be accessed via http://the.captain.al.googlepages.com. Launch day updates and tracking information can be found at http://palcsnearspaceballoon.blogspot.com/. Individuals who use RSS feed readers or Firefox can receive RSS feed updates to the Update Tracking Blog here. Students and interested individuals can still send their names to near space! After successful recovery of the payload, individuals will be sent a commemorative certificate with the date and vital statistics of the flight. The form can be found here. ------------------------------------------------------------ 4-23-07 PALCS University Scholars Students take three out of four scholarship prizes On Saturdays April 21st, the PALCS Debate Team competed in a debate tournament sponsored by Perspectives Debate Inc. -- a nonprofit organization promoting youth debate education. ------------------------------------------------------------ 4-13-07 Enrollment for 2006-2007 Closing / 2007 - 2008 Opening Enrollment for students in Grades K-11 will be CLOSING on April 20, 2007. All enrollment packets for the 2006-2007 school year MUST be postmarked by April 20 and include all required documents in order to be eligible for enrollment this school year. We are currently in the process of creating our 2007-2008 Enrollment Packet. If you are interested in enrollment for the '07-'08 School Year, please click on "Registration Information" and complete our information form. ------------------------------------------------------------ 2-23-07 Congratulations to the PALCS Mock Trial team and Regional Word Power Challenge Winner! Congratulations to The PALCS Mock Trial Team members: Katie Devanney, Bucky Kellorgg, Alex Koren, Nathan Lee, Dan Lee, Evan Pruitt, Trevor Pruitt, Lydia Reyle, Christopher Spurdle and Monica Watson. The team competed for the first time on February 22 at the Chester County Courthouse in West Chester AND WON! They were the defense's legal team and witnesses. They will complete again on February 23 as the plaintiff's legal team and witnesses. Click here for more information. PALCS would also like to extend congratulations to 6th grade student Cheyenne Robinett. Cheyenne was the 6th grade winner of the Word Power Challenge at the PA Leadership Charter School. Upon further competition, Cheyenne has qualified for the state championship! We wish our students the best of luck! ------------------------------------------------------------ 2-14-07 PALCS Offices Closed due to Weather on Valentine's Day
------------------------------------------------------------ 2-9-07 PALCS Balloon Project Puts Students in Touch with Near-Space ------------------------------------------------------------ 1-24-07 Science Demo Day! Have you ever wondered how cyber school students “do” science online? Aside from digital labs and some home experiments, PALCS is proud to present our first Science “Demo Day” on February 21 – science teachers are coming to the Pittsburgh office to demonstrate science in action! Labs will include a dissection, pollution in Pittsburgh’s rivers, earthquake-proof structures, “fun with water,” and a physical science lab dealing with motion. ------------------------------------------------------------ 12-22-06 Happy Holidays! We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a wonderful Holiday Season and a very Happy New Year!
The offices of Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School will be closed from December 25, 2006 through January 1st, 2007. All faculty and staff will return on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007. * Please remember that the last day of the second marking period is Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007. The portal will be available for all students wishing to continue to work through the break. ------------------------------------------------------------ 11-3-06 Enrollment Closing for Seniors In order to best meet the needs of our students, enrollment is closing for seniors as of November 9, 2006. All pending students will continue to be processed; however, any missing paperwork must be on file no later than November 9 to be eligible for enrollment during the 2006-2007 school year. ------------------------------------------------------------ 10-2-06 Open House - Cyber Style! PALCS is hosting its first Open House the first week in October. Since travelling to the West Chester office is not an option for every family, we are bringing the teachers to the students in the Multimedia Classroom. Every teacher will host a chat for 30 minutes this week, talking about their classes and answering parent questions. For current school students, please check the school announcements for a schedule! ------------------------------------------------------------ 9-25-06 School Kit Collection Now Underway Throughout the month of September, PALCS is helping refugee and displaced children the world over by collecting school kits to send out to these children in need. To learn more about the School Kit Collection and the specific materials in the kits, please click this link. Donations are welcome! ------------------------------------------------------------ 9-12-06 PALCS School Newspaper Articles Go National The PA Leadership Charter School's journalism class produces a school newspaper, The Talon. The paper is hosted at the My High School Journalism website and is available to read here. Each week, a National Edition is created from stories written for high school newspapers across the country. This week, two stories from The Talon were selected for the National Edition, which can be viewed here. Talon articles were frequently chosen for the National Edition in the 2005-2006 school year, as well. Congratulations to our young journalists! ------------------------------------------------------------ 8-30-06 Enrollment Update We are still accepting enrollments for the 2006-2007 school year! However, due to receiving a large number of enrollment packets, it may be several days before you receive a phone call to set up an orientation. It may be an additional 2-4 weeks before your orientation date. Thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------ 8-15-06 The Computers are Coming! Attention new families: your computers are coming! Computers for new students enrolled for the 2006-2007 school year will be shipped out on Monday, August 21 via UPS Ground. Families should expect the computers to arrive before Friday the 25th; families in the Eastern part of the state, as well as families living in Pittsburgh or its suburbs, can expect the computer to arrive as early as Tuesday, August 22. A signature is required for the delivery of these packages, so please have a responsible party ready to accept them! ------------------------------------------------------------ 8-2-06 PALCS Invites YOU to learn about Pennsylvania's Cyber Charter Schools The PA Leadership Charter School will be participating in the Cyber Charter Expo and Enrollment Fair at the Lehigh Valley Mall in Whitehall (near Allentown) on August 5 from 10 am – 5 pm. Representatives from PALCS will be available to answer your questions about cyber school and distribute information and enrollment packets. The following schools are participating with PALCS at the expo: PA Cyber, PA Virtual, Commonwealth Connections, PA Digital Leaners, Achievement House
------------------------------------------------------------ 7-27-06 Notice to Students Enrolled for the 2005-2006 School Year and Earlier From Friday, July 28th at 5:00 p.m. until Monday, August 7th at 8:00 a.m., the portal for currently enrolled students will be unavailable due to Digital Schooling's scheduled maintenance and implementation of our new and more-user friendly portal. We are looking forward to our new technology! www.palcs.org will remain active during this time and will act as a news source for both current and prospective students. Exciting things are happening this summer at PALCS! ------------------------------------------------------------ 7-25-06 University Scholars Parent Information Session To learn more about the program, click here, or call 610-701-3333 x286.
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