{"id":4982,"date":"2015-03-26T11:09:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/charter-school-slates-lottery-briefs\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T00:40:33","slug":"charter-school-slates-lottery-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/charter-school-slates-lottery-briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter school slates lottery | Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Excel Public Charter School hosts its inaugural school lottery at 6 p.m. Friday, April 3 to determine its sixth- and seventh-grade classes that begin Aug. 18. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s4\">The event, which is open to the public, will be at the Kent Youth and Family Services at Birch Creek, 12910 SE 273rd St., Kent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Adel Sefrioui, founder and school director, will conduct the lottery. He will select 88 sixth- and 88 seventh-graders. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Excel is one of the state\u2019s first public charter schools. It is also the state\u2019s first computer science-oriented school.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">To learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.excelwa.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.excelwa.org<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s4\"><strong>Elsewhere<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p6\">The Northwest Council for Computer Education recently honored <strong>Thuan Nguyen<\/strong>, Kent School District chief information and digital strategy officer, with the Outstanding Technology Leader of the Year award at its 2015 conference in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p6\">The award recognizes an individual who has gone above and beyond in his or her support, dedication and passion for technology that supports learning and learners, made a significant and long-term impact on technology in education, and collaborated beyond the boundaries of his or her institution, building, district, or region.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p6\">The NCCE highlighted Nguyen\u2019s work with numerous districts, associations and the Kent School District.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p6\">Accepting the award, he recognized the work of his colleagues and the long history between Kent and the NCCE.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p6\">\u201cThis recognition is simply a reflection of the amazing people that I get to work with each and every day who challenge and inspire me to do my best.\u201d Nguyen said. \u201cStart a dialog with your school district to leverage conversations to provide technology that our kids truly deserve.\u201d\u00a0 &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p7\">The Kent School District continues to host a series of <strong>budget forums <\/strong>throughout the district to discuss funding capacities, timelines, spending and programs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p7\">Meetings will be from 7-8:30 p.m., Thursday, April 2, at Kentwood High School, 25800 164th Ave. SE in Covington; and 7-8:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, at Kentridge High School, 12430 SE 208th St.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p7\">The district also is planning two multicultural outreach events to engage the community and assist with translation needs. The events will be from 7 to 9 p.m., Thursday, April 23, at the Kent-Meridian High School cafeteria, 10020 SE 256th St., and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, in the upstairs meeting room at the Birch Creek Family Center, 13111 SE 274th St. in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p6\">For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.k12.wa.us\/KSDBudgetForums\" target=\"_blank\">www.kent.k12.wa.us\/KSDBudgetForums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excel Public Charter School hosts its inaugural school lottery at 6 p.m. Friday, April 3 to determine its sixth- and seventh-grade classes that begin Aug. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}