“Family members of children accepted into the new Imagine Andrews Charter School attended atown hall meeting April 14 at the base theater to receive updates about the school and to ask questions regarding the process going forward.
Pat Crain, Imagine Schools Maryland Regional director, expressed confidence to families on-base on the kindergarten and first-grade waiting lists that their children will be enrolled because of relatively small waiting list.
Emails are slated to be sent to every family accepted into school to see if they accept or decline the spot.
At the time of the meeting, 190 families had accepted and 33 had not yet responded. He asked those in attendance to please pass the word to those families so they don’t run the risk of losing their spots. Imagine Schools also plans to call those families they haven’t heard from.
The next phase of this process is to begin enrolling the children. This process will go on for the next several months.
Parents are to start bringing in documentation in order for Imagine Schools can to register students. There will be two separate dates for staff to begin collecting these documents. The first is from 5-8 p.m. April 26 for kindergarten or first graders.
The second is from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. for April 28 or second, third and fourth graders.
Registration will either be held at the Imagine Schools welcome center here or at the base theater. Parents should be on the lookout in emails for the set location.
Parents unable to attend one session will be allowed to go to the other no matter what grade their child will be entering.
The documents parents are required to produce either at the initial meeting or a follow-up enrollment appointment are: birth certificate, immunization records, and last report card. To prove residency, parents will need to bring a property-tax bill, lease, deed, or settlement papers. Two utility bills also are required.
Bills must be in the name of the parent registering the student and show an address consistent with proof of residency.
If new to the county, the required documents must be originals. For parents with those documents already on file with Prince George’s County, copies will be sufficient.
The goal of these two enrollment dates is to have as many students’ documents as possible by the end of the week.
The families in attendance at the town hall meeting had questions regarding uniforms, school lunches, hours of operation, and how up-and-coming siblings of accepted students will be handled.
Once a principal is hired and the parent base is selected, the principal will work with parents to decide on a uniform. Parents will be responsible for purchasing uniforms.
Lunch will be brought in each day. Children will eat in their classroom for the first year in the temporary facility. Lunches will be the same price that Prince George’s County students pay now.
School hours will be from 8:30 a.m.-2:40 p.m., and the school will follow the PG county calendar and holidays.
Up-and-coming siblings of current students can bypass the lottery and be admitted into the school.
For information, visit the Imagine Andrews website at www.imagineandrews.org.”
Article published on April 21, 2011 by Capital Flyer