Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District has been looking at adding a charter school to the district, and California Republic Leadership Academy is hoping to its choice.
CRLA Yorba Linda is a transitional kindergarten through eighth-grade charter school that will instill values of “virtue, responsibility and accountability,” said Gary Davis, CRLA’s executive director and a California Charter Schools Association vice president, during a June 20 PYLUSD board meeting.
The goal of the new, tuition-free school would be to “inspire and empower the next generation of California’s leaders to excel academically, to be proud Americans, proud Californians, and to impact the world with excellence derived from an education like that which produced the inspired servant leaders who founded our great nation,” according to its mission statement.
Students — which CRLA calls “scholars” — will be taught a “classical education” curriculum that will include history, English, math, visual and performing arts, laboratory science, foreign language and college preparatory electives.
Davis said classical education “guides students to love that which is true, good, and beautiful.”
The school would operate under the FranklinCovey “Leader in Me” curriculum that is based on the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” book by Stephen Covey. This curriculum is “leadership” focused, encouraging students to “intentionally lead their own lives,” according to the FranklinCovey website.
“Students are led and taught to see how people, decisions and discoveries have created the world we live in today,” said Davis. “Teachers will provide unbiased instruction without an agenda. Our goal is to raise up a generation of critical thinkers to lead our communities.”
CRLA will also hold “traditional values” in classes. According to Davis, this looks like uniforms for all students, no cellphones, daily Pledge of Allegiance recitations and…
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