Charter School

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

"In his first Annual Letter, Gates noted that over the past nine years, his foundation has invested over $2 billion to create better schools, with the bulk of that going to create smaller schools and classrooms." Gates stated that a "few of the schools that we funded achieved something amazing. They replaced schools with low expectations and low results with ones that have high expectations and high results. Almost all of these schools are charter schools that have significantly longer school days than other schools."

This article was also quoted as saying:

"National Alliance for Public Charter Schools President and CEO Nelson Smith said, "Right now, charter school students are getting by on about 22% less funding per-pupil than their peers in district-run public schools and 24 states have some kind of "cap" on the number of charters that can be created. "Bill Gates' comments are a welcome wake-up call to state legislatures to change their laws in 2009 and treat charter schools and their students fairly.""

To read more about Bill Gates Annual Letter and charter schools, visit http://www.publiccharters.org/node/692. This is true for Free Horizon Montessori as well. This is a primary reason why we fundraise so diligently to provide quality education to our children. Please come to FHM's Annual Meeting on Tuesday, April 7th (time to be announced) to find out more about that State of our School, including facility and financial information, and how you can help FHM be the best school for our children.