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ELEMENT A: DESCRIPTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM “ New West has been an amazing school. My daughter is graduating this year and I must say that I am going to miss the school, the teachers and the staff. The entire 3 years that my daughter has attended has been academically challenging for her, yet she has excelled in each and every subject. I just wish that she could continue with their rigorous program beyond middle school.” Parent Review, 2010 New West Charter Vision New West Charter High School (NWCHS) is a promising vision of a driven, academic family whose central objective is to continue to inspire and prepare all students to continue education after high school at a four- year university. Beginning in 1999, New West Founders worked tirelessly to create a small, high quality, public middle school on the Westside of Los Angeles and having accomplished that small feat, these same individuals now want to give birth to a most desired, much needed public high school cultured on the same foundation and standards. This vision shall be an extension of New West Charter Middle School’s vision, which produced a model middle school that combined proven best practices and cutting-edge innovations to teach children most effectively. This current practice, developed through the efforts of a dedicated and creative family of students, staff, parents and community supporters, will continue to produce a school culture with elevated academic, social and professional expectations and achievement indicators. The goals for a high school, then, are to one, to re-locate operations for both a middle and high school (6-12th grade) to a new 50,000 square feet location at 1905-1915 Armacost Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90025; and two, to further strengthen the academic standards and opportunities on campus, operate economically and efficiently, be responsive to the needs of our student body and parents, reward excellence in instruction, rise to the technology and the times