On Monday, Oklahoma was hit by a series of devastating tornadoes. Homes and businesses were destroyed and two elementary schools were also in the storm's path. Several individuals lost their lives in this tragedy, including 9 children.

In a effort to raise assistance funds for Oklahoma, HSPS will sell "casual dress" passes. For $5, students may purchase a party lei necklace that allows them to wear jeans or below-the-knee length shorts and a t-shirt each of the four last days of school. Students who are not wearing their lei or who are not dressed as specified above, will be considered out of dress code and will be required to call home for a uniform or report to ISS. Please keep in mind that this is not "free dress." There will be no exceptions and replacement lei necklaces will not be available.

Lei necklaces will be available for sale starting tomorrow for $5 in Ms. Green's room (201). All proceeds from lei sales will be sent to the Red Cross of Oklahoma, who is already involved in the tornado relief efforts.

You are cordially invited to
HSPS 2nd Annual Piano Club Recital and Awards Presentation
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 6:30PM
Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 6:30PM
There will be a reception immediately after each recital

HSPS

Piano Classes will continue during the summer break.
New and continuing students are welcome.
Classes will be offered Monday – Thursday 11:30AM – 2:00PM at HSPS.
Group, Semi-Private, and Private Classes are offered
For more—detailed—information, feel free to contact
Cynthia Sledge at 512-825-6385 or at info@ckspianoartsstudio.com

May 30th and 31st are early release days. Your students will be released at 12:30. Please make arrangements to pick them up. If you use Zenith, they will be on campus those days.

Please click here to see schedule.

In this Semester, 8th and 9th grade students are expected to complete the registration/request process for the following year. After carefully reviewing available courses, students, parents, and teachers choose an appropriate and realistic course plan.

Please turn in this form to Mr. Ceylan no later than April 18th, 2013. . All schedules will be approved and completed by May 10. Students who are concerned about any course requests should fill out the Schedule Change Request Form prior to the May 17. Click on the links below for course selection forms.

Freshman Course Selection Form

Sophomore Course Selection Form

HSPS is hosting a Harmony Day at Six Flags on May 25.

Ticket prices include an all you can eat lunch buffet, parking and admisison to the amusement and water parks. Share this with family, friends, and neighbors…everyone is welcome!

Ticket sale extended to Friday, May 24th. GET THEM NOW.

Students are not allowed to enter through the front doors until 8:05AM. They need to report to the back building and find their class. They can enter though the front doors after the courtyard doors have closed at 8:05AM.
Do not use the front gate between 7:35 and 8:05 AM.

Harmony School of Political Science is sharing this information about the district and your child's campus with you as part of its obligations under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB).

NCLB Report Cards for the state as a whole, all school districts and charter schools, and all campuses are also available on the Texas Education Agency's NCLB web site at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=4638&menu_id=798.

Information on these report cards includes:
Assessment results for the LEA and campuses in the aggregate and disaggregated by race/ethnicity, gender, disability status, migrant status, English proficiency, and economically disadvantaged showing two-year trend data (across the most recent previous two school years) for each subject and grade tested:
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NCLB 2012 School Report
NCLB 2012 District Report

"If students are absent they need to call in to the attendance line each day they are out or send an email to the attendance line before 11am. Failure to call or email the attendance line may result on an unexcused absence.
Parents please keep in mind that emails are taken as written notifications and can be used as excused notes depending on reason for absence."

Phone: 512-666-1834
Email: harmony.attendance2012@gmail.com

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If a student is enrolled in grade 8 or below and is taking a course for which there is a STAAR EOC assessment, that student will be required to take the applicable STAAR EOC test. For example, an eighth grade student enrolled in Algebra I will take the STAAR Algebra I EOC, as well as the grade 8 reading, science, and social studies assessments. Local school district policy will determine whether this student will also take the STAAR grade 8 mathematics assessment. How is STAAR different from TAKS? The new end-of-course assessments will only assess the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for a given course, unlike the high school TAKS tests that cover material from multiple courses.The questions on the new STAAR will be deeper and more complex than TAKS.

Below you will find links to information and resources on Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), including TAKS (Accommodated), TAKS–Modified (TAKS–M), Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS), State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR™), STAAR Alternate, and STAAR Modified.For more information.
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Dear Parents and Students: 

We have recently updated certain portions of our Student/Parent Handbook (“Handbook”) and Student Code of Conduct (“Code of Conduct”) to reflect recently adopted legal requirements and School policy. The full text of these updates is available here and is also available in hard copy form from the front office at Harmony Science Academy-Beaumont. Please refer to the full text when reading and relying on your Handbook and/or Code of Conduct.


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Newsweek has announced America's Best High Schools where seven Harmony schools have made into the list.

Harmony Science Academy - Bryan/College Station, Harmony School of Advancement (Houston), Harmony Science Academy Fort Worth, Harmony Science Academy (Houston), Harmony Science Academy El Paso, Harmony Science Academy Dallas, Harmony Science Academy-North Austin are the campuses that made into Newsweek's list.

Newsweek has also identified Top 25 Transformative High Schools in which four Harmony Schools are also featured.

HSA Bryan/College Station, HSA El Paso, HSA Houston, and HSA Dallas became America's 25 transformative schools who did the most with the least resources.

In 2011, two Harmony campuses were also named as the Miracle Schools by Newsweek.

Washington Post has announced its Most Challenging High Schools list of 2012. Four Harmony high schools made the Challenge Index and three of them in the top 100 out of 1900 schools in the list.

The Challenge Index of Washington Post ranks high schools since 1998 based on the student achievement on IB, AP, and college level tests (SAT, ACT, etc.) and graduation rates. The index score is the number of college-level tests given at a school in 2011 divided by the number of graduates that year. Also noted are the percentage of students who come from families that qualify for lunch subsidies (Subs. lunch) and the percentage of graduates who passed at least one college-level test during their high school career, called equity and excellence, (E&E). A (P) next to the school's name denotes a private school.

See the detailed list here.

A segment of the May 13 television news show 60 Minutes included references to Harmony Public Schools (HPS) of Texas that may have left some inaccurate impressions. Please note the following facts about Harmony Public Schools, all of which were shared with 60 Minutes before the show was broadcast: Read more at Harmony Public Schools and 60 Minutes: Setting the Record Straight

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From Superintendent Dr. Soner Tarim To the Harmony Public Schools Community: A disappointing article on charter schools in this week's New York Times attempts to put Harmony Public Schools in Texas in a context that is not accurate, necessitating this brief response. Many of us at Harmony Schools cooperated extensively with the Times on this story over the last several months, providing documents, interviews, tours and dozens of detailed responses to specific questions in good faith. But, as sometimes happens, the end result was not entirely what we had hoped. See the rest of Dr. Soner Tarim's response here: http://harmonytx.org/news/122/letter-to-stakeholders-on-ny-times-article/

It is the policy of the Harmony Science Academy Charter School to locate and identify any child who contacts or enrolls in the Charter School who may have a disability and be in need of special education and related services, regardless of the severity of the disability, in accordance with its procedures as reflected in the CHILD FIND legal framework of the Legal Framework for the Child-Centered Special Education Process, located at: http://framework.esc18.net/. read more...