Hearing and Vision screenings will be conducted May 18-19 for all 8th grade students. These are state-mandated screenings. Parents, please ensure your student brings their glasses to school on these days. Students that have been prescribed glasses need to be screened wearing their glasses. Any students that fail a screening, will receive a mailed correspondence indicating the screening results. If you have any questions, please contact the nurse at crystal.anthony@pgcps.org.

CMIT Nurse

PTO Meeting - Our next PTO Meeting is **THIS Wednesday, May 11th at 7pm.** Registration info will be distributed this week. As mentioned in our previous meeting, we will have 5 PTO positions opening--President, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, and Parliamentarian. If you or anyone you know is interested in serving in any of these positions, please review our bylaws (https://docs.google.com/document/d/14h1Q4CMGO2A2qC8TG-CRdsyYgFNy-M4Q3ZWaYMutxCw/edit?usp=drivesdk) for position descriptions and look out for details regarding nominations and the upcoming election. ============================================= Teacher Appreciation Week was a great success!! We really enjoyed celebrating our teachers and staff and included a few pictures from this week's activities. ============================================= The Double Good Fundraiser concluded on Friday and was also a great success!! We had a total of **18** families contribute to reaching our sales goal. We now have enough funds to cover 8th grade graduation, spring student activities contributions, and for PTO continuity for the '22-23 school year. Thank you so much!! Instructions about the details of dress down day will be distributed at a later date. Prize Winners: *1st Place Beats Studio Buds Winner: Nikhai Hines ($2047 in sales) *2nd Place $50 Apple Giftcard Winner: Erykah Watson ($1782 in sales) *3rd Place $25 Amazon Giftcard Winner: Donovan Jordan ($1022 in sales) ============================================= Join the PTO - Membership is our biggest fundraiser and the best way to keep you connected to the Tiger community. Your membership dues help us to support our Students and Teachers throughout the school year and beyond. Dues are $10 per family per school year and donations of any amount are welcome and encouraged 😊. Please pay the $10 dues for your family by using our QR Code above, via the following PayPal link: http://paypal.me/cmitnorthmspto by choosing Payment Type: Friends and Family (to avoid incurring a fee) and entering your Name and Email in the payment message (*very important*), or in the PTO Dues Box in the Front Office using the envelopes sent home with students.

Thank You, CMIT MS PTO

Q: Is CMIT North MS a public school? 

A: Yes We are a public charter school who is staffed by PGCPS teachers and administration, and support staff who work along side of a limited CLF staff. We have access to PGCPS support but also benefit from additional guidance, management and financial support from Chesapeake Light House Foundation, whose educational concept this school is based on. 

Q: Do siblings get preference in applying to CMIT?

A: The process of gaining entry to any charter school in Prince George's County is through a lottery. However, siblings of already attending CMIT students are weighted differently during the lottery process. This different weighting gives preference to siblings. 

Q: What makes CMIT different then any other school in the district? 

A: Although we are a PGCPS public charter, we are given some autonomy over curriculum. This autonomy allows us to fast track students, who are academically ready, through selected high school courses in math, foreign language, science and technology. It is that fast tracking that opens up opportunity to more advanced  coursework on the college level while still in high school.  Additionally, we offer students supports and enrichments to every student, not available at most schools. Lastly, we are a uniform school which takes away the distraction, the competition and the social stratification that is brought on by non uniform dress in a school. 

Our test scores oustrip not only county averages but also state avaerages. This, along with other metrics has made us a 5 star school. 

Q: Do you offer everything the big middle and high school's offer? 

A: Unlike many school in Maryland, we do not have a  full spectrum offerings in sports.  Instead, our focus is on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics). Therefore, our sports offerings are more limited.  We offer, boys and girls soccer, basketball, girl's softball, boy's baseball and club lacrosse in the middle school. Additionally, boys and girls basketball, track/field and volleyball at the high school level. With that said we recently (2017) won the girls county basketball championship and made it to the playoffs in soccer. Our high school opened a multi-million dollar, state of the art gym complex, competitive with all schools of their size. The middle school has also added an indoor gym space.  Lastly, we do offer special educational services, but becuase we are a school of choice, the amount of service hours we can provide is limited to 7.5 hours a week, split between literacy and math. Services hours are delivered by special education teachers but are limited to literacy and math courses.