Company Profile

Company Description:

Gateway Community Charters mission is to create and manage high quality charter schools which provide access to innovative, quality, standards-based educational opportunity for all students.

Charter schools give teachers the flexibility to innovate and try new ways to improve student achievement. This flexibility gives charter schools the ability to develop successful new models that work. Charter schools also hold teachers and the local community accountable: if student achievement isn’t improving, charter schools can make quick, effective changes like modifying curriculum or making appropriate staff changes to improve student achievement.

Charter schools are independent public schools that are allowed to be more innovative and are held accountable for improved student achievement. By forming a strong partnership among parents, students and teachers, charter schools are able to create an environment that’s specially tailored for the students who go there. An environment where:
*Parents are encouraged to be involved
*Teachers have the freedom to innovate
*Students have the chance to learn
*All three are held accountable for improving student achievement
 *Do not charge tuition
 *Are not religiously-based, and may not discriminate
 *Enroll all students who apply, unless the school is at capacity, when at capacity prospective students are entered into a lottery
 *Meet all California State Standards for curriculum
 *Administer state standardized tests
 *Have credentialed teachers for core subjects
 *Receive public funding, based on student enrollment