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Brief Background The Pegasus School of Liberal Arts & Sciences is part of the public school system of Texas, providing tuition free public education to its students. It is an open-enrollment charter school, having first opened it's doors to 7-9th grade students in the fall of 1997. The school currently serves students in grades 4-12. Chartered through Genesis Schools, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that holds that charter for the school from the Texas State Board of Education, the school is run based on the charter. As a charter school, Pegasus is one of the fastest growing innovations in public education. More than twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation providing for the creation of charter schools, which operate independently of local school districts and offer variety and alternatives to the standard regime of public education. Pegasus receives funds from the state of Texas. The state sends Pegasus a monthly allotment based on the student enrollment and average daily attendance. Neither Capital, start-up costs, nor supplemental program costs are state funded. These costs must come from grants and contributions by foundations, corporations, and individuals.
Vision and Mission The vision of Pegasus
Charter School is to be an interdisciplinary public
school, located in the heart of Dallas, designed to
develop and educate serious learners, and committed to
continuous improvement.
School Objectives -To provide students from ethnically, racially and economically diverse backgrounds with an excellent public education; -To utilize the heart of Dallas as a learning laboratory to develop and educate serious learners, while contributing to the vitality of the city; -To organize the Pegasus School of Liberal Arts & Sciences around learning, not teaching, using a variety of learning endeavors that require the active involvement of the student in the learning process; -To achieve academic excellence, high achievement, intellectual and personal integrity, and participation in community life, taking pride in a life that is significant as well as successful; -To learn how to learn, to think critically and logically about that learning, to develop well-reasoned thoughts, to effectively express those thoughts both orally and in writing, to integrate the learning of school with every day life, to accept individual responsibility for work and learning, and to learn to work collaboratively with fellow learners on complex problems; -To perform quality work, accepting no less than an individual’s personal best; -To maintain a decorum and attitude that permits all those associated with the Pegasus School of Liberal Arts & Sciences to reach their full potential, that is considerate of others with whom the Pegasus School of Liberal Arts & Sciences shares its space, and that reflects positively on the Pegasus School of Liberal Arts & Sciences; -To optimize learning and the opportunity for learning, creating in students a desire for continuous learning and improvement; and fulfilling that capacity for learning possessed by each student; -To develop fundamental skills that support a life long journey of learning; -To maintain prudent fiscal policies, sound business practices, and innovative use of non-financial resources; -To foster the joy and sense of adventure that is a part of learning.
Founding Principles - Public education is the cornerstone of our nation, providing a common base of knowledge critical to the fabric of a functioning democracy. - Schools organized solely around reading, lecturing and testing, or organized around a regimented, departmentalized system of education will not adequately prepare students to face the task of solving contemporary problems. Such problems have complex, multiple dimensions that demand the integration and application of knowledge and skills in a variety of subject areas. - Schools must be organized around learning, not teaching, and must require the active involvement of the student in the learning process. Rather than receiving information passively, each student must be willing to expend considerable effort at learning. If a student fails to see, conceive and perceive, that student fails to learn. - Schools should be designed to serve the serious ends of education, moving beyond mere memorization facts to authentic, active, and real-world learning. - Learning is a life long journey, built on fundamental skills that can be honed in a nurturing environment where standards are high and continuous improvement is the goal. - A rigorous education in the liberal arts and sciences provides a strong foundation for preparing students for productive and meaningful lives by: - helping students learn how to teach themselves, how to define a problem, how to apply theories, and compile evidence, how to validate results, and how to re-examine conclusions in light of alternative explanations; - helping students develop strong character to anchor them in a complex and chaotic world, which can be facilitated through exploration of the classics and through careful reading of history; - helping students acquire the self-discipline, love of truth, respect for integrity, scholarship, artistry and craftsmanship, and scorn for hypocrisy. - helping students develop a fervor for a lifetime of thinking, reading, and remaining intellectually and passionately engaged with the world and its issues; and - helping students understand that a productive and meaningful life is a life that is not merely successful, but is also significant because of personal integrity, leadership and service to family, friends, and the community.
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The Pegasus School of Liberal Arts & Sciences Fax: (214) 740-9799
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