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Spotlight: Journey From Teacher to Leader as an IDEA Founding Teacher Fellow

Morgan Johnson is a Founding Teacher Fellow from IDEA South Flores Academy. Morgan found himself traveling from California to Texas last year after being accepted into the Founding Teacher Fellows Program.

“I chose to work at IDEA after reading about the IDEA mission to help all scholars make it to and through college,” he said. “I had never heard of another school who had the same track record of success along with the s...

What New IDEA Families Can Expect After Lottery

If your child was selected to attend IDEA for the 2019-20 school year, congratulations! Welcome to our Team & Family! You’ve made a great decision to partner with IDEA to ensure your child succeeds on the road to and through college. 

Although the excitement of lottery is behind us, we have so much to look forward to together as we prepare for the first day of school in August 2019 and the year ahead...

8 Things to Know About IDEA's Lottery Process

IDEA’s Student Lottery is held annually to ensure equal access for all student applicants.  Read below for eight things you should know about this important event. 

You can also review IDEA's Lottery FAQs here: https://www.ideapublicschools.org/faqs/lottery

Random Selection - During the Lottery, names will be selected at random using SchoolMint, an automated enrollment software system that is fair, transparent, and complies with data privac...