What does it mean that the Academy is private, secular, and non-profit?
A private school is run independently of many government regulations, particularly those that regulate what is taught. Private schools have many freedoms because of this, although they must raise the money to pay their expenses. We consider there to be two major advantages to being private; first we do not have to give all the tests mandated for the public schools, such as those for No Child Left Behind (we expect to meet and exceed all the educational standards anyways). The second is that we may set our own standards for teacher qualifications. Several studies have shown that teachers do better when they are well-trained in the subject they teach; unfortunately many education courses do not prepare future teachers for the subject they will teach. We do not have to hire only state-certified teachers. While many of our teachers are/will be certified, many will not because they have taught in other private schools or in colleges and universities, which do not require certification. We w
