Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania Charter School

RESIDENTS CONCERNED OVER CHARTER SCHOOL'S MAILINGS- SEVERAL READERS ARE REPORTING A POTENTIAL BIAS IN YOUNG SCHOLARS' APPLICATIONS PROCESS; April 13, 2011; Baldwin-Whitehall Patch (Pittsburg, PA) 

…Young Scholars is accepting admissions applications on its website from all eligible parents and is listing open house sessions. [See important note below]

However, several readers have sent the Baldwin-Whitehall Patch news tips claiming that mailings from Young Scholars to their homes over the past few weeks may show a bias toward potential applicants. Readers are claiming that they have received mailings inviting them to apply for their children to enroll at Young Scholars even though some of their neighbors with eligible children have not received them.

The concern is if Young Scholars is targeting specific students given that receiving an invitation to apply to the school through the mail is a more direct method of communication than a posted application on the school's website…

Young Scholars will open this coming fall in Baldwin Township with plans to enroll 20 students per grade level in kindergarten through fifth grade (120 total students)…

Christina Gruber, a Baldwin Borough resident with a daughter entering third grade in 2011-12, said that she has received application materials from Young Scholars through the mail but that some other residents on her street that also have eligible children have not…

Despite Gruber and Winowich's claim that some eligible Baldwin-Whitehall residents have not received Young Scholars' mailings, some readers from outside of Baldwin-Whitehall have informed the B-W Patch that they have…

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NOTE: This school is connected to Young Scholars of Central Pennsylvania. See: Young Scholars of Central Pennsylvania Charter School: Evidence of affiliation with the Gulen Movement 

Also:

• U.S. charter-school network with Turkish link draws federal attention, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 20, 2011
• WikiLeaks files detail U.S. unease over Turks and charter schools, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 4, 2011