According to an email received late yesterday afternoon, the Vance Charter School’s days as the county’s sole charter school are numbered.
According to co-founders Eric Sanchez and Carice Cantelupe, the Henderson Collegiate Charter School became a reality at about 11:00 a.m. Thursday morning when the North Carolina State Board of Education approved the charter with its second-highest score.
The school’s self-appointed mandate is to turn children at risk for failure in traditional academic settings into college-bound students.
According to Sanchez and Cantelupe, earning the charter is only part of the battle. They said in their email that the school will need monetary and material donations along with volunteers to work at school fund raisers, to physically build the school, and to “continue generating community support because it makes everything else possible”.
The school’s founders announced that they intend to launch a web site in the next two months that will provide residents with opportunities to support Henderson Collegiate’s mission.