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IDEA Schools will have two new sites in 2010
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PHARR — Pharr and Alamo will have each an IDEA school open in time for next school year, officials announced Friday.
Both campuses will open in August 2010 starting with kindergarten, sixth and ninth grades. Additional grade levels will be added each year.
In 2006, IDEA Public Schools began an ambitious expansion plan to open 22 new schools across the Rio Grande Valley by 2012. Today, the school system has 12 campuses from Mission to Brownsville, not including the two announced Friday.
IDEA schools are tuition-free and open to all students. All schools are accepting applications for the 2010-11 academic year. Existing campuses are located in the cities of Donna, Brownsville, McAllen/Edinburg, Mission, San Benito and San Juan.
IDEA Public Schools operates a system of public charter schools that focus on college readiness.
In 2009, IDEA College Preparatory in Donna was named the top-performing high school in the Rio Grande Valley, the No. 2 high school in Texas and the No. 19 high school in the nation, according to the school system’s Web site.
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Martha L. Hernández covers Mission, western Hidalgo County and general assignments for The Monitor. You can reach her at (956) 683-4846.
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