Florida State football star Myron Rolle is not only a potential Rhodes Scholar and the focal point of this New York Times article by Pete Thamel. Rolle is also the creator and founder of Our Way to Health, a healthy lifestyle awareness program for fifth grade students at Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School in Okeechobee, Florida. Among his many accomplishments, Rolle points to his work with the Seminole Indian students at the charter school as an achievement of which he is particularly proud.

In other headlines...

CA: Parents in Sacramento may have more public school choices then they know about. According to this Sacramento Bee editorial, parents are largely unaware about public charter schools as an option because the Sacramento City Unified School system does not readily publicize them.

CO: KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy was honored as the state's top nonprofit by the El Pomar Foundation. Rocky Mountain News reporter Nancy Mitchell writes that the award honors the charter school's ability to raise academic achievement for Denver middle-school students, many from low-income and minority families, here.

PA: Philadelphia's School Reform Commission has hired former Mastery Charter School chief operating officer Benjamin Rayer as a new associate superintendent for charter schools. Kristen A. Graham of the Philadelphia Inquirer describes some of the challenges the School Reform Commission faces including a shortage of books in the traditional school district here.