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Jim Nelson
Commissioner of Education
May 18, 2001
Trent Petty
Westlake Academy
3 Village Circle, Suite 207
Westlake,TX 76262
Dear Mr. Petty:
I am pleased to inform you that your application for a charter school received the necessary average of 150 points or
higher when evaluated by external reviewers. Therefore, you are scheduled for an interview with the Planning
Committee of the State Board of Education on Thursday,June 28,2001,at 10:30 A.M.in Room 1-104 of the William
B.Travis Building, 1701 N. Congress Avenue,Austin,Texas 78701.
Be prepared to give a 10-minute overview of your application and to answer questions related to your application. It
is important for your overview to be no longer than 10 minutes in order to allow time for committee members to ask
questions. An overhead projector and screen will be provided.
Mrs. Strickland, chairman of the Planning Committee, has requested that each applicant provide tabbed notebooks
for the committee to use during the interview. While this was not a requirement contained in the RFA,the tabbed
notebooks will be very helpful to the committee as it reviews your application. Please bring to the interview seven
copies of your complete application. These copies should be in three-ring binders so that you can provide one to
each of the five planning committee members,one to me, and one to another TEA staff member. The application
should be arranged as follows:
Coversheet
TAB 1 —Information Reviewed by Agency and Considered in Overall Ratings
Items 1-7 as indicated in the application
TAB 2—Statement of Need
TAB 3—Vision of the School
TAB 4—Student Goals
TAB 5—School Goals
TAB 6—Educational Plan
TAB 7—Governance Structures and Processes
TAB 8—Attachments
Attachments 1-28 as indicated in the application
The copies should be duplicates of those previously submitted. The application already on file is your official
application, and although we are sending with this letter the scores sheets for the application from the external
reviewers, no changes to the filed copy can be made without direction from the Planning Committee. You will receive
notes from TEA internal reviewers at the end of your interview.
The SBOE Planning plans to consider applications on July 12, and the full board plans to vote on new charters on
July 13. Although there are no presentations from applicants at the July meetings, you are expected to attend these
meetings to answer any questions from board members,
Should you have any questions, please call Linda Freeman or Mary Perry at 512-463-9575.
Sincerely,
Susan Barnes
Managing Director, Division of Charter Schools
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