Excellence in Governance Award Linda Johnson! Ms. Linda Johnson, Former State Board of Education Chair, is the GEO Prep Academy School Board President. GEO Prep Academy is a free, public, high quality Kindergarten through fourth grade charter school in East Baton Rouge. She is a native of Baton Rouge, and a Southern University graduate, with […]
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Janell Lewis went from ‘Teaching Teddy Bears’ to ‘Teaching Teachers’ by Latricia C. Wilson | Originally published on November 27th, 2016 in the Chicago Rises blog While dozens of teachers have abandoned their mission to educate youth in Gary, Indiana, one South Side Chicago native is challenging students and teachers to be great in a […]
Gary Middle College Adds a New Look to Downtown Gary Middle College is helping to lift the face of downtown Gary. At Thursday’s ribbon cutting, Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson said, “The city is so pleased to have the school’s expansion right here in the downtown community. It shows the future is happening right here, in […]
Top 3 Reasons College is a Must and Not a Myth: Tuition Free Degrees Now By Kevin Teasley, CEO/President of the GEO Foundation Politicians talk about free college as it if it does not already exist, but it does. In Gary, Indiana, a public charter school offers free college to its students, and students are […]
“A Black Cop Confronts the Crisis of Police Shootings and Racial Conflict: ‘We All Bleed the Same.’” Black cop Robert McGarner has grown used to race entering the conversation as he works his beat in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “You hear it all the time,” he says, just after a black teen he questions outside a […]
In Gary, Indiana, only eleven percent of adults age 25 and over have a bachelor’s or associate’s degree. The town’s unemployment rate, 6.1%, is the lowest it has been since 2008 – yet is still significantly higher than the national average of five percent. In Gary and similar towns across America, the weight of poverty […]
As a GEO Academy student, Jeremiah Tate was taking college classes from age 13. He skipped 5th grade and 7th grade, and due to the GEO academic model, was able to speed through material faster than his classmates. He graduated high school at age 16, and by then,Jeremiah had earned over 50 college credits, all […]
Jamal Abdulrasheed graduated from a GEO Academy in YEAR. He is now a law student at the IU McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis and a Business Associate at GEO Foundation. Jamal’s mother decided to enroll him at a GEO Academy because of the small class size and the dual enrollment program with Ivy […]
In 2005, we were invited to Gary, Indiana by hometown leaders to start a public charter school. Residents wanted to do something to help improve the educational outcomes in the city. They witnessed annual high school graduation rates hovering around 50%, and college Associate and Bachelor degrees were and still are almost non-existent (only 5% […]
21st Century Charter School recently hosted “Learning At Home,” an elementary school event for families to share tips on educational activities we can do at home to prevent the “summer slide,” when students forget some of what they learned at school the previous year. We shared tips on how to use objects or toys […]