The Academy of Collaborative Education, a new public charter school for children on the Autism Spectrum, has received approval to accept students from BESE. The school will serve kindergarten through fifth-grade students in Monroe starting in July of 2024. ACE Director Joellen Freeman says ACE will be a tuition free public charter school.
“All of our academic achievements – all of our policy and procedure, everything is reported directly to BESE. We are a local educational agency of our own.”
The school offers student-centered learning with two classrooms per grade and a total of 96 students.
Maddie Cannon is also a co-Founder of ACE. She’s a parent of an autistic child and wants a school that would meet and exceed his unique learning needs…
“Knowing that he’s going to receive the teachings, the lessons, the peer interactions, the social aspect, for me as a parent, that’s everything. That’s all any parent hopes for.”
Freeman says the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder is high and ACE has added therapeutic interventions and therapies required by autistic students.
“Having the services like applied behavioral analysis, their speech therapies, they’re occupational therapies, that’s actually in their classroom in real-time is a huge deal for these children and it’s very innovative.”
ACE will open enrollment in November. To learn more about ACE, visit Aceforasd.org.
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