The extra hours of work to produce Westlake Academy's campus newspaper have paid off for the staff. The Black Cow has been awarded 47 prizes in a state contest, more than any other student newspaper in the Texas Interscholastic League Press Conference competition. The charter school has no in-school journalism program and students put the paper together on their own time. The paper is mailed to all Westlake households.
Good morning. Today on your source for education news and notes, star-telegram.com, you will find:
More Tarrant schools teaching Spanish -- to staffers
Kennedale school board candidates share ideas on teacher recruitment
7 candidates running for 2 Arlington school board seats means change ahead
Two hired to lead Westlake and school
Today on star-telegram.com:
Haltom City schools collect plastic for a prize, by Terry Webster (At left, science teacher Brad Teague watches seventh-graders Benjamin Masters, right, and Reagan Phonsa, lower right, empty plastic bottles into a recycling bin at Haltom Middle School on Monday.)
Briton is chosen to lead Westlake Academy, by Jessamy Brown
Thursday is the deadline to apply for admissions to Westlake Academy, the state's only municipally operated charter school.
The school, which next year will be open to students in kindergarten through 11th grade, has a waiting list of more than 1,000 students.
Westlake students are offered automatic enrollment. Applications are being taken from students in these 31 districts:
Argyle, Arlington, Azle, Birdville, Boyd, Carroll, Carrollton, Coppell, Decatur, Denton, Duncanville, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw, Fort Worth, Frisco, Garland, Grand Prairie, Grapevine-Colleyville, Hurst-Euless-Bedford, Highland Park, Irving, Keller, Krum, Lake Dallas, Lewisville, Little Elm, McKinney, Northwest, Paradise, Ponder, Springtown and Weatherford.
Applications are available on the school's Web site.
Now it sounds like the powers-that-be in Westlake may decide to honor their initial pledge to voters regarding construction of a new arts and sciences building for the town's premier charter school, Westlake Academy. There has been much debate in that exclusive enclave after efforts to boost the building budget with private donations weren't fully realized. Three letters to the editor in today's Star-Telegram lay out the debate. Town aldermen meet at 5 and 7 p.m. Monday to discuss alternatives.
