Circle Academy

“Form 990 is reviewed by management and the board of trustees for approval. If changes are required, the school will then forward the return to the accounting firm for appropriate corrections, and a final version will be distributed to all board members prior to the irs submission.”

“The school shares its conflict of interest policy with board members and officers as part of their regular meeting. Officers, directors, and key employees are expected to declare if at any point a conflict of interest arises.”

“Compareable data is used by the board when determining the compensation of officers, directors, and key employees.”

“The governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and all financial statements are available upon request.”

“The mission of north side school (nss) is to provide a warm, caring, and stimulating early childhood environment that is safe and nurturing.”

“For the 2014-2015 school year, nss served 163 students universal-pre-kindergarten (upk), private pre-school and kindergarten. The school implemented several practices that helped to maintain instructional coherence by doing the following: 1. Nss focused on the school environment in an effort to maintain a loving, trustful, and respectful environment, that would enable our students to love, trust, and repect their parents, teachers, each other, and especially themselves. 2. Nss focused on diversity in an effort to maintain the fair treatment of all people and the earth. 3. Nss focused on parent programs in an effort to make sure our parents are involved in the education of their children. 4. Nss provided professional development for the staff focusing on childhood development and early childhood education. 5. Nss focused on training and updating of the staff on the standard pre-school curriculum guidelines and the new york state common core project. 6. Nss worked to encourage and develop the students physically, socially, emotionally, and intellectually through the daily emphasis on each of these developmental skills. 7. Nss was successful in focusing on the after school day care service that specialize in various types of specialized learning for students and parnets needing education programs. 8. Nss was successful in focusing on the school's special education services via collaborations with high quality like education organizations that specialize in various types of specialized learning for students and parnets needing education programs. The collaboration involves shared space, equipment and services delivery.”

“The school has not changed the committees that assumes responsibilities for oversight of the audit, review, or compliation of its financial statement and selection of an independent accountant.”