The Family Partnership Charter School (FPCS) community will be heavily impacted by the termination of FPCS's charter with the Anchorage School District (ASD). Many families have chosen to enroll their children in FPCS because of the focus on a parent-driven and student-centered education.

If the ASD terminates the FPCS’s charter, it will dissolve FPCS’s APC, damaging and disadvantaging the students and families currently enrolled at FPCS, such that FPCS will no longer be a suitable school for them. As a result, families will leave FPCS and seek alternative schooling options, within or outside of the ASD.

The Academic Policy Committee’s (APC) role is vital to our school.  Members of the APC represent families, teachers, and staff, and they are responsible for overseeing the direction of our school. The APC serves in FPCS’s system of checks and balances and is a critical component of maintaining our focus on a parent-driven and student-centered education. For example, the APC selects FPCS’s principal. Without an APC, the ASD will choose FPCS’s school principal, and the principal will follow the direction and vision of the ASD rather than one that best supports our homeschooling students and families.

It is critical to the equity of educational opportunities for FPCS students that FPCS retain its charter and, thus, ability to direct parent-driven and student-centered education, which has resulted in math and language arts proficiency rates 13-26% higher than other ASD students, respectively.

As the current or future students and families of FPCS, we are calling on ASD Superintendent Dr. Jharrett Bryantt to preserve the FPCS’s charter with ASD, or we will have no choice but to leave FPCS and search for alternative schooling options. 

This petition will be presented before the ASD school board on the April 3rd meeting, where termination of the FPCS charter will be voted on.