1. Put the goal as make the Lake Eola Charter School as a K-8 center of education excellence 14 years ago. Location First year: Convert the old parking garage to school. She thought that it is better to build the school on the road rather than build in isolated place. They used Lake Eola park as library, research, reading, downtown architecture for history and geometry lessons. Second year: They concentrated in foundation of LECS. Third year: Open school and take the first class without textbook, let the students use curriculum utilizing resources like web sites and practical exercises.
And rest for the year: Continue strengthen the curriculum, find new faculties and expand the school as high school. There are some troubles in public school in America today because of the creation of charter schools. Charter school gets the funds from government but they operate individually as nonprofit organization. They persuade the parents to select the charter school. As the result 350,000 families are approach to the charter school waiting list and 37% of the teachers in public school also preferred chartered school while 31% was opposed to them.
2. They let the students to use the public Resources because they don`t have any libraries and research rooms. 3. Utilize qualitative and quantitative analyses to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that LECS faced (Construct a SWOT table) Strength: The greatest strength of LECS was the excellent track record of student performance. Another impressive strength of LECS was parent satisfaction with the school. Lastly the “private school feel the school has with no additional associated costs,” as expressed by students and parents.
Weaknesses: The greatest weakness of LECS was the lack of communication from the school to the greater community and parents. A second weakness of LECS was the limited operating budget of the school. Opportunities: As more parents became dissatisfied with Orange County public schools, there was an opportunity for LECS to attract students from these schools. ECS’s third weakness involved searching for donations and the tools necessary to enable this.
Threats: In contrast to the opportunity a weakened economy provided LECS, it also posed a threat for the school. . • Benchmarking may eventually result in different organizations within the same field doing things in much the same way. This generally happens when NPO leaders lose mission focus or when one’s own competitive advantage is not understood fully. • It can be difficult to isolate indicators that lead to program or organizational effectiveness. • Identifying which organizations are comparable takes time and effort and may result in false comparisons and conclusions.
For example, nonprofits in different locales may face very dissimilar funding environments, more or less favorable volunteer prospects, and unique staff situations. • Evaluate the quality of LECS’s mission statement. To what degree was LECS fulfilling its mission? Mission: Lake Eola Charter School’s mission is to provide differentiated instruction leading to mastery of national standards, and to use best practices to develop comprehension, computation, critical thinking, character and community service in our family of learners in the city of Orlando.
