Great Hearts Academies
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Great Hearts Academies is a non-profit charter school management organization which operates charter school "preparatory academies" (grades 7 to 12) in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area. Tempe Preparatory Academy is the founding sister school to the Great Hearts network of schools.
The member schools -- Veritas Preparatory Academy and Chandler Preparatory Academy -- are substantially outperforming other public schools, according to Great Hearts Academies, with a model of schools that are smaller, more efficient, and set higher expectations for all students through a core, liberal arts curriculum.
Mesa Preparatory Academy will open for the 2007-8 academic year in the vicinity of University and Power Roads.
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- Chandler News - Chandler Prep Academy - Charter school's first month is smooth
- Arizona Republic: Commentary: "State's rules stifle charter schools, threaten success." Vicki Murray, Ph.D., director of the Center for Educational Opportunity at the Goldwater Institute. Nov. 6, 2005
- Arizona Republic: "Charter Group Plans Growth". October 24, 2005. Great Hearts Preparatory Academies plans to open nine more schools.
