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Compadre High School
Compadre Academy (formerly Compadre High School) is a high school in the Tempe Union High School District in Tempe, Arizona. It serves as a faster paced alternative high school for students who wish to get ahead in their high school credits. Compadre Academy formerly consisted of two campuses due to one of the schools being under construction to add more facilities. Subsequently, the other school was closed and has since had its students moved to the now much larger and renovated campus. Athletics Compadre Academy's mascot is the Lobo. Partnership In 2017, Tempe Union High School District entered into an agreement with Arizona State University to operate a charter school on the Compadre Academy campus, alongside the existing school. The new school, part of a network of the ASU Preparatory Academy charter schools operated by Arizona State University, will be called ASU Prep Compadre High School. The school will admit 100 9th and 10th graders in its first year and plans to gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempe Union High School District
The Tempe Union High School District is a school district of high schools in Tempe, Arizona, USA. Its service area includes all of Tempe, the city of Chandler, Arizona west of the Loop 101, Guadalupe, the Gila River Indian Community in Maricopa County, and the Ahwatukee area of Phoenix (the same areas served by the Tempe Elementary School District and the Kyrene School District, both of which feed into Tempe Union). The district operates six comprehensive high schools, an online school, and in 2023 will open the Innovation Center at the former site of Compadre Academy, which will allow students to earn high school credit solving real world problems. Tempe High School also teaches the International Baccalaureate. Peggy Payne Academy, once an independent 'school-within-a-school' for gifted students, is now a program of McClintock High School. Governing Board Members * Armando Montero (President) * Amanda Steele (Vice President) * Sarah James * Andres Barraza * Berdetta Hodge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempe, Arizona
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Arizona State University
Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the U.S. One of three universities governed by the Arizona Board of Regents, ASU is a member of the Universities Research Association and classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities â Very High Research Activity". ASU has nearly 150,000 students attending classes, with more than 38,000 students attending online, and 90,000 undergraduates and nearly 20,000 postgraduates across its five campuses and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona. ASU offers 350 degree options from its 17 colleges and more than 170 cross-discipline centers and institutes for undergraduates students, as well as more than 400 graduate degree and certificate programs. The Arizona State Sun Devils compete in 26 varsity-level sports in the NCAA Division I Pac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charter School
A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located. It is independent in the sense that it operates according to the basic principle of autonomy for accountability, that it is freed from the rules but accountable for results. Public vs. private school Charter schools are publicly funded through taxation and operated by privately owned management companies. Charter schools are often established, operated, and maintained by for-profit organizations, and are not necessarily held to the same standards as traditional public schools. There is debate on whether charter schools should be described as private schools or state schools. Advocates of the charter model state that they are public schools because they are open to all students and do not charge tuition. Critics of charter schools assert that charter schools' private operation with lack of public accountability makes them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ASU Preparatory Academy
Arizona State University Preparatory Academy (also known as ASU Preparatory Academy or ASU Prep) is a public charter university-preparatory school network; it consists of K-12 schools chartered by Arizona State University. As of August 2021, ASU Prep's network of tuition-free charter schools include about 3,300 students in four metro Phoenix locations, plus ASU Prep Digital, a Kâ12 online school that reaches out to over 42,000 nationwide and global learners. ASU Prep's campus school locations include: * ASU Preparatory Academy Casa Grande (Grades 9-12), Casa Grande, Arizona * ASU Preparatory Academy Phoenix (Grades K-12), Phoenix, Arizona * ASU Preparatory Academy Polytechnic (Grades K-12), Mesa, Arizona * ASU Preparatory Academy South Phoenix (Grades K-12), Phoenix, Arizona Curriculum ASU Preparatory Academy includes K-12 curriculum as well as college-level extension classes from Arizona State University. The schools are accredited by Cognia, and some of them are STE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
