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Seven Generations Charter School is a small, suburban, public charter school located in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EdNA - Seven Generations Charter School )〕 The school was founded in 2009. Seven Generations Charter School is operated under the oversight of a local Board of Trustees, the East Penn School District and the Pennsylvania Department of Education. In 2013, the enrollment was 351 pupils, with 12% of pupils eligible for a federal free or reduced price lunch due to the family meeting the federal poverty level.〔Pennsylvania Department of Education, School Performance Profile - Seven Generations Charter School, 2013〕 Additionally, 17.94% of the pupils receive special education services and 3.7% pupils were identified as gifted. Seven Generations Charter School is a federally designated Title I school. According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 10% of the school's teachers were rated "Non‐Highly Qualified" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.〔Pennsylvania Department of Education, Professional Qualifications of Teachers Seven Generations Charter School 2012, September 21, 2012〕 In 2011, the school employed 34 teachers yielding a 9:1 student teacher ratio.〔NCES, Common Core of Data - Seven Generations Charter School, 2014〕 According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 10% of the school's teachers were rated "Non‐Highly Qualified" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.〔Pennsylvania Department of Education, Professional Qualifications of Teachers Seven Generations Charter School 2012, September 21, 2012〕 Seven Generations Charter School is one of four public charters schools operating in Lehigh County in 2013.〔Pennsylvania Department of Education, PA ED DIrectory - Charter Schools, 2013〕 According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, in 2012, there were 50,605 children in Lehigh County that were enrolled in public charter schools.〔Pennsylvania Department of Education, Charter School Enrollment 2012-13, 2013〕 Originally, the school provided Kindergarten through fourth grade. By 2013, it has grown to offer kindergarten through eighth grades. The school is housed in a former silk mill originally built in 1892 and is located near residential neighborhoods, a small town business district, several local historical sites, the main headquarters for Rodale Publishing, and an expansive local community green space. In 2010, students from 23 school districts in the Lehigh Valley region attend Seven Generations Charter School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Seven Generations Charter School Annual Report 2010-11 )〕 Seven Generations students participate in the surrounding community activities like parades and special events. Seven Generations Charter School embraces the EIC program requirement that all students improve their local environment through community-based service learning activities. First grade students raised community awareness about how to protect a local pond by petitioning the mayor and council to have signs posted and giving presentations at the local library. Third graders wrote letters to local community leaders to acquire resources to purchase of native plants to replace invasive species on our adjacent riparian zone. The plants were chosen by third and fifth grade students, collaboratively, so that they supported the fifth grades service project of honey bee hives that ensure sources of pollination. In 2012, Seven Generations Charter School received national recognition as an EIC Model School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Seven Generations Charter School receives national recognition as an EIC Model School )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The EIC Model )〕 In Pennsylvania, charter schools are initially approved and subsequently overseen by the local school board.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charter Schools )〕 They make in depth, annual reports to the Pennsylvania Department of Education. In Pennsylvania, charter schools are a public school alternative the local public schools. Students may seek admission to a local charter school. The student's home public school district pays the tuition costs on the student's behalf. Additionally, when the local school district provides transportation to its students it must also provide transportation at no costs to charter school students when the receiving school is within 10 miles of the District's borders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=24 P.S. §17-1701-A Charter Schools - Transportation )〕 Pennsylvania charter schools have the same academic accountability as traditional public schools and must give the PSSAs to their pupils each year, working to achieve AYP status.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charter School Regulations )〕 According to Pennsylvania charter school law, if more students apply to attend than there are open slots available, Charter Schools are required to use a random lottery system to select new incoming students.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Summary of Charter School Legislation )〕 According to the Charter School law, siblings (brothers and sisters), and children of individuals who help establish a charter school, are granted an “admissions preference.” Students residing in the East Penn School District are selected first, according to the number of slots available for local resident students. If there is space available for more students, seats will be declared open for out-of-District students.〔Pennsylvania Department of Education, Seven Generations Charter School Annual Report 2013, 2013〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Seven Generations Charter School Administration )〕 The Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit IU21 provides the school with a wide variety of services like specialized education for disabled students and hearing, speech and visual disability services and professional development for staff and faculty.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit IU21 )〕 ==School performance profile== Seven Generations Charter School achieved 77.3 out of 100. Reflects on grade level reading, mathematics, writing and science achievement on the state PSSAs and Keystone Exams. In reading/literature - only 69% were on grade level. The third grade has 87.8% reading on grade level in reading. In mathematics - 65.6% showed on grade level mathematics skills. In Biology/science, 88.64% showed on grade level science understanding. In 5th grade writing, 64% of pupils showed on grade level writing skills.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Seven Generations Charter School Academic Performance Data 2013 )〕 According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 2,181 public schools (less than 73 percent of Pennsylvania public schools), achieved an academic score of 70 or higher.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL PERFORMANCE PROFILE 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seven Generations Charter School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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