Congratulations to the Boys Blue Soccer team for winning the tournament championship on Saturday. Thanks to Coach Ramirez for a successful season!

Congratulations to the Girl's soccer team for placing 2nd in their tournament this weekend! Thanks to Ms. Livaudais and Ms. Borel for their help and dedication this season!

The annual STEM Website and Movie Contest is hosted by Harmony Public Schools and open to Harmony and SST students in 8-12th grade. Teachers and students will be awarded with iPad Mini's. Students participated with movies and websites that feature projects in physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and more! Here is the link to choose winners for each categories:
Please click here to Vote

The 2013 Texas Charter School Association Rally is a great opportunity for supporters of charter schools to show their support to their State Senators and Representatives. This year we have two very important pieces of legislation that could impact all charter schools in the state of Texas. They are Senate Bill 2 and House Bill 5. Along with these important pieces of legislation, May is an action month in which many decisions are made. Join us to show your support for Public Charter Schools in Texas!

The Rally will take place on May 8th at the Capitol building. The rally will go from 1-2pm and from 2-3pm the Charter School Supporters will be recognized in the House and Senate galleries. Two or three school busses will be chartered to make transportation easier. Please note in your RSVP if you would like to ride the school bus to attend the Rally. The bus will leave the designated pick up campuses at 11:30am and leave the Capitol around 3pm. Please eat before or bring a sack lunch and a blanket (optional) as we will have a picnic on the Capitol grass.

Please fill out one RSVP for each individual who will be attending the event using following link: read more . . .

Please click here to see the FUN

Harmony Science Academy–Austin 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

***NCLB 2012 Campus Report

Parent Notification Letter

Notificación a los Padres

The Student Portal of the Texas Assessment Management System (TAMS), delivered through PearsonAccess, is designed to provide students and parents with online access to a student’s state test scores. This portal will assist student and parents with tracking assessment information throughout a student’s academic career.
The portal provides scores from the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), including TAKS-Modified (but not including TAKS-Alternate), and the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS).
In order for you to be able to have access you need to
1) visit the following website
http://www.TexasAssessment.com/Students
2) Click on the "Go to Student Portal" link.
3) Enter the Unique Access Code in the labeled field. Refer to the most recent Confidential Student Report (CSR) to find your code.
4) Enter date of birth and login. Congratulations, you have created your account.

For more information about setting up your account and how to utilize this website please refer to this guide.
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Dear parents,
This message is from your childs school. You can now create an account to see your childs Texas Assessment results. This portal will assist student and parents with tracking assessment information throughout a students academic career. For more information on how to create and use this account please go to our website and refer to the announcement titled. Texas Assessment Student Portal is now available.
Sincerely.
Harmony Administration

Harmony Public Schools-Austin (HPS-Austin), are now accepting applications for grades K through 12 for the 2013-2014 academic year for all five campuses.

CLICK HERE to see details and OPEN HOUSE DATES.

APPLICATION FORM

ONLINE APPLICATION

Math
Science
English
Social Studies
Computer/Art/PE
SPED
LOTE
ESL
Bilingual
Please Click Here to Apply

Please review our campus highly qualified teacher report for 2012-2013 school year



HSAAUSTIN Highly Qualified Report



Parent Notification Letter



Notificación a los Padres

Recently, Harmony Public Schools received positive recognition from the Austin-American Statesman for its success at producing top-notch, college-ready students while maintaining a lean budget.
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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...