CMCS WELCOMES NEW DIRECTOR

Mr. Lonnie S. Yancsurak, CMCS Director

The CMCS Board of Directors is extremely proud to introduce our director, Mr. Lonnie S. Yancsurak. The CMCS Board of Directors will now begin the transition from management of the school to the more appropriate role of governance.  We will be putting control of the school’s day-to-day operations in extremely capable hands.

ABOUT LONNIE YANCSURAK
Mr. Yancsurak brings 19 years of professional experience to Coastal Montessori Charter School, spending the first 10 years working in various industries including retail management, financial services, internet marketing, and management consulting.  After living through the tragedy of 9/11 as a resident of New York City, he was inspired to take his life in a different direction, becoming an educator. His education experience spans nearly 10 years, with four years of successful teaching experience in urban Los Angeles high schools, and five years as a successful charter school leader in elementary and middle schools.  As the founding principal of Triumph Charter Academy in Los Angeles, Mr. Yancsurak led his school to a 195 point API (Academic Performance Index) growth in only 4 years.
Looking for a new challenge, Mr. Yancsurak came across the director posting for Coastal Montessori Charter School.  He was immediately attracted to the idea of opening the only charter school in Georgetown County, and loved the fact that the school would follow the Montessori teaching method.  The possibility of raising his family in such a beautiful community was also a huge attraction.  After several phone interviews and a trip to Pawley’s Island in March, he knew immediately that this was where he was meant to be.
Mr. Yancsurak is in the final few months of his dissertation about the effectiveness of a targeted English Language Arts intervention after-school program. When he is not at work or working on his dissertation, Mr. Yancsurak enjoys watching Ohio State football, road bicycling, and chasing  around his two young boys, Bodie (3½) and Beckett (2) with his wife of 16 years, Shannan.

ENROLLMENT PACKETS

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Enrollment Packets are now available for download. Please only submit an Enrollment Packet if you have received an Acceptance Letter for you child.

In order to complete your child’s enrollment file, we ask that you please complete all of the forms in this packet and return them to CMCS emailed or postmarked by January 30, 2012. Because there is currently a waiting list for every grade, we are not able to hold a spot for any child whose enrollment forms are not completed by the deadline.

Completed packets may be returned either by scanning and emailing them to:  rhorvath@sc.rr.com

or by mailing them to:

CMCS Office of Admissions Coastal Montessori Charter School, P.O. Box 3754, Pawleys Island, SC 295895.

 

ADMISSIONS POLICY

Miss the deadline?  You can still send in the Application for Enrollment Consideration.

Coastal Montessori Charter School has a rolling admissions policy.  This means that CMCS welcomes Applications for Enrollment Consideration year round.

However, each year there will be an “open enrollment” period with an application deadline. This year students who submitted Applications for Enrollment Consideration that were postmarked by or before the application deadline of December 15, 2011, will be admitted if there is space available, or entered into the annual lottery if enrollment exceeds available space.

Students submitting Applications for Enrollment Consideration after the open enrollment deadline of December 15, 2011, will not be entered in the lottery, but will be admitted if there is space available. If there is not space available, those students will be placed on a waiting list after the students who were entered into the lottery but did not receive a spot, and then in the order in which the application is received.

You can download the Application for Enrollment Consideration form here. One form per child must be filled out and submitted for CMCS enrollment consideration. The form must be filled out even if you have already filled out a Letter of Student Interest.  If we have more Application for Enrollment Consideration forms than open slots, we will hold a random lottery in January 2012, to determine placement. The Application for Enrollment Consideration form must be mailed (no hand deliveries) to:

P.O. Box 3754 • Pawleys Island, SC  29585

CMCS will make every effort to communicate with all families on an ongoing basis to keep them informed as to where their child is on the waiting list.  We appreciate your understanding as we aim to provide a fair and open system of access to Coastal Montessori Charter School.

Application for Enrollment Consideration forms are also available at the following locations around Georgetown County:

GEORGETOWN:

PAWLEYS ISLAND:

ANDREWS:

HEMINGWAY:

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CMCS BOARD OF DIRECTORS MAY MEETING

The Coastal Montessori Charter School (CMCS) Board of Directors will meet Monday, May 14, 2012, at 6 pm, at 14361 Ocean Highway, Pawleys Island, SC  29585 (Remax office, Litchfield Exchange, 2nd floor above the Applewood Pancake House).  The CMCS board regularly meets on the second Monday of every month at the same location and begins the meeting with Executive Session (closed to the public) at 6 pm.

Draft AGENDA for Monday, May 14, 2012

EXECUTIVE SESSION – 6 pm (closed to the public)

READING OF THE MISSION STATEMENT (open to the public)

APPROVAL OF AGENDA

APPROVAL OF APRIL MINUTES

PUBLIC COMMENTS*

ACTION ITEMS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MEETING ADJOURNED

*This section of each regularly scheduled CMCS Board meeting is reserved for comments from the audience on any item appearing on the agenda.  Also, the time is made available for citizens to make specific requests of CMCS or to raise specific issues for future discussion by the Board.  Comments/requests should be as brief and to the point as possible and should not exceed three minutes.  Persons who wish to address the Board are required to complete one of the cards available at the meeting and submit it before the meeting begins.  Normally, the Board will not address specific requests during the meeting at which they are made.

CMCS AUTHORIZED BY DISTRICT!

Joe Isaac and Kristin Bohan of the CMCS Planning Committee celebrate authorization by the school district.

With a unanimous vote at  a special July Georgetown County School Board meeting, Coastal Montessori Charter School was authorized to become part of the school district.

We are so grateful to the school board, state and county officials, the Public Charter School Alliance of SC, volunteers, and supportive citizens and appreciate their confidence in our plan to offer Montessori as a public school choice to the parents of Georgetown County.  Thanks to all those who came out to support us.  Now the real work begins!  Stay tuned for more updates from the CMCS Planning Committee.