Letter from the Chair of the Board of Yinghua Academy


Welcome from the Board of Yinghua Academy! We are pleased that you are looking through our website to learn more about Yinghua Academy.

Yinghua Academy is a charter public school. This means that we are an independent public school that is governed by a board of directors. The purpose of the board is to oversee the operation of the school and to develop and ensure the implementation of the vision and mission of the school. As you may have seen already on our website, our basic goal is to provide an excellent school at which all students will develop near-native fluency in Mandarin and at which all students will succeed academically.

At present we have 10 board members, including me. Seven of us have been on the board since late 2005/early 2006. Three new board members were elected last June. By law a charter school must have a fully-elected board by the end of its third year of operation. Consequently, the seats of the seven founding board members will be up for election in either June 2008 or June 2009.

As you will see from our bios, we have a very strong board. Our board is composed of accomplished people, each of whom represents one or more of the following constituencies: person of Chinese heritage, educator, business person, and parent of a Yinghua Academy student.

Our board meets approximately every three weeks. The minutes of our board meetings are posted on our website as soon as they have been approved by the board. The dates of future board meetings are also posted.

Thank you for your interest in Yinghua Academy! Please check our website from time to time for the latest information about our school.

Cindy Moeller