Founders of the Martha's Vineyard Charter School have come a long way and they candidly admit they still have a long way to go before they open the school doors in September 1996.
Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School
December 8, 1995
Yvonne Guzman
Betsy McIsaac, a long-time seasonal resident, heard that the Vineyard was getting a charter school when she read about it in the paper last summer.
May 31, 1996
Yvonne Guzman
When 72 Island students move to the new Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School this fall, they will take with them $370,000 from the budgets of other Island schools.
September 6, 1996
Yvonne Guzman
In Max Butler's first weeks at school, he will help set up a computer system.
2013
May 30, 2013
The rafters echoed with laughter as 12 high school seniors gathered in Polly Hill Arboretum’s far barn to commemorate their graduation with a simple lunch. These students are the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School’s Class of 2013, the school’s largest graduating class since its first class of seniors graduated in 2001.
April 25, 2013
Eighteen Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School students and their seven chaperones landed in Rome on April 8. The annual eighth grade trip was inaugurated in 2002 and continues to be led by Charter School Social Studies teacher, Jonah Maidoff. During the 11-day visit, the students spent time in Rome, Florence, the Tuscan countryside and San Giovanni V’al D’Arno where they met up with their pen pals, Italian students of the Instituto Comprensivo Marconi.
2012
December 14, 2012
A soft buzz of 250,000 watts of energy echoed off of Watcha Path in Edgartown on Thursday afternoon.
“Listen to that hum,” Bill Bennett told a group of Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School students standing next to several transformers at Mr. Bennett’s new solar array.
March 22, 2012
Charter School Play
Next weekend, March 30 and 31, the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School will present its annual theater production. This year they take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play with essentially four plots in one: a royal wedding, prank-playing fairies, a love quadrangle and workmen trying to put on a play. Something for everyone indeed.
February 23, 2012
Assignments included making French toast, building a robot, taking a yoga class and spray-painting stencil graffiti. For homework: chopping wood for the fire. The tests, voluntarily taken, were those of the imagination — how to fashion an outfit of candy wrappers, what color to paint the clay figurine, how best to build a shelter in the Vermont woods.
Welcome to project period at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School.
2010
June 3, 2010
They studied ancient Roman attire, wrote a series of memoirs, documented leaving the family business for the first time and excelled in photography.
And now this small group of distinguished artists, writers and self-directed learners will graduate this weekend from the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School. Known for their enthusiasm and creativity, the graduating senior class of nine students will accept their diplomas at a ceremony tomorrow afternoon in West Tisbury.
