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.
2019
May 30, 2019
The Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School graduation is Sunday, June 2 at 1:30 p.m. on school grounds at 424 State Road in West Tisbury.
May 7, 2019
The Charter School performs the Hobbit this weekend, with kindergartners though high schoolers embodying dwarves, elves, walking trees and the wizard Gandalf. Performances are at the Grange Hall on Friday and Saturday.
2018
December 20, 2018
On Tuesday, Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School sixth grader Volkert Kleeman woke up long before dawn to look for worms in his family’s compost pile.
August 30, 2018
Classes begin Tuesday at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School, but new director Peter Steedman has been hard at work since July.
June 4, 2018
Thank you all so much for being here and taking part in this celebration with us and for all of your support, in one way or another, over our high school days here at the charter school.
June 3, 2018
The Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School welcomed its 18th graduating class during a commencement ceremony on Sunday afternoon.
