Vanessa Gray
Terry O’Day
Robin Lindsley
It’s been nearly two years in the making and for three women and the city of Forest Grove this is just the beginning of an unprecedented step for the school district. Terry O’Day, Vanessa Gray and Robin Lindsley are starting the first charter school in the school district and they will be the first to admit that it’s been hard work. “Every step you take there’s always obstacles, mainly it’s just a lot of work and there’s so much to learn about it and so many little details to take care of,” said O’Day an art professor at Pacific University.
Charter school win highlights success, failure
The charter school movement has its supporters as well as its opponents, nevertheless it is a growing trend across the country. In fact, according to a recent Washington Post article charter schools are the strongest they have ever been. This is thanks in part to the March announcement of what the Washington Post is calling the “most successful fundraising campaign in the movement’s history.”
State of the Art: charter school proves to be artist’s showcase
It may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of art, but that’s exactly what the Forest Grove Community School (FGCS) is for Terry O’Day.
The Forest Grove community school is the first charter school in Forest Grove, Ore., set to open in fall 2007. O’Day, an art professor at Pacific University, is the founder of the school and has grand plans for the school as not only a place of learning but as a form of her own artistic expression, known as eco art.
“If you start a school you have to involve the community, everybody in the community and by involving kids of the community you're also talking about the future of that community.”
Terry O’Day
THE MAKING OF A CHARTER SCHOOL
