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A public charter network offering a classical liberal arts curriculum announces it will open its second Tarrant County school, Great Hearts Arlington, in August 2021.  DALLAS/FORT WORTH, TX. — September 22, 2020 — Great Hearts Academies has announced plans to launch its second campus in Tarrant County in August 2021.  This will be the charter […] Read More »

Great Hearts to offer hundreds more Texas students the opportunity to attend the highly sought-after classical liberal arts academy through its 100% online school. The K-12 public charter school network announced it will be offering its highly rated classical liberal arts curriculum to hundreds more students this school year and will do so through its […] Read More »

Phoenix, AZ—A for Arizona announced the 18 public K-12 school systems that will receive Expansion and Innovation Fund grants to innovate and reimagine how best to serve their students in the 2020-2021 school year. Round One grants were funded by an initial $1 million contribution from Governor Ducey’s Emergency Education Relief (GEERs) fund through federal […] Read More »

Jay Heiler Brings Experience and Passion to Classical Charter School Network PHOENIX, Ariz. | SAN ANTONIO, Tex. | DALLAS/FT.WORTH, Tex.  —July 30, 2020— The Great Hearts America Board of Directors has appointed founding Chairman Jay Heiler as Chief Executive Officer of the organization. Heiler and President of the Great Hearts Foundation Dan Scoggin, along with now-Chairman […] Read More »

The numbers are in, and Great Hearts Academies, a nonprofit network of tuition-free public charter schools in Texas and Arizona, is excited to announce its 2020 graduating class of seniors were awarded $44.29 million in merit-based scholarships. Ninety-seven percent of graduates will directly attend college, with 149 of the schools’ 555 graduates enrolling in college […] Read More »