In 200???, employees and board members of Quote… Unquote, Inc., operators of Channel 27 Public Access TV began to investigate the possibility of founding the state’s first ever media-centered arts school, as well as the first ever state-authorized public charter school.

On September 19, 2008, the New Mexico Public Education Commission, on a unanimous 8-0 vote, chose to approve the charter application, thus making Media Arts Collaborative Charter School the first ever New Mexico-state chartered public school.

As the first state-chartered school, MACCS wrote the Performance Framework, Media Standards, and guidelines, some of which remain in effect for the 60 state-charter schools.

Timeline

• In 200XXX, a governing council was formed to serve as the acting body for the school. On XXX, the governing council was made a permanent council.
• In ??????, ?????, Glenna Voigt was selected as Principal of the school, and later that year????, the school opened on August XXXX, 2008, with an initial enrollment of XXX throughout the XXX grade levels.