The picture above is one of pure joy. These are our students celebrating their Regional Championship this past weekend. If you’re from Indiana, you know March is a very crazy month. The newspapers have filed several reports on the success of our team this year and we are very proud of their accomplishments on the […]
Media Coverage
Hard to believe it was 21 years ago this weekend that Forbes Magazine surprised me with a full-page article on the work we were doing at GEO Foundation in support of school choice. Those were fun times…and productive. I had more hair, too. It was also 21 years ago that we stopped talking about school […]
In 1981, Eugene Lang promised 61 6th graders he would pay their college tuition. All they had to do was complete high school and get accepted to college. The “I Have a Dream” Foundation website reports 60% of these 6th graders earned a college degree. Last week, Hope Chicago Founder and Co-Chair Pete Kadens announced […]
School Choices Parents Make Matter
Feb 23, 2022
White papers and policy books can be dry and impersonal so I share this story with my policy friends. At GEO, there is nothing dry, nor impersonal about what we do. We practice school choice policies every day. Today, join me in celebrating these two students and the school choice decisions their parents made. Anija […]
GEO’s North Star–Student Achievement
Feb 23, 2022
Every once in a while, I have to take a break from the day-to-day to ask myself, why GEO? GEO stands for Greater Education Opportunities. The pictures above illustrate what GEO is about, too. We stand for providing students a high quality education from kindergarten through college. We do our work by offering different pathways […]
As the country continues to confront learning loss caused by Covid, I’m proud to report all GEO schools are open and in-person teaching. Our schools are the safest place for our students and staff. We’ve installed new filtration systems, new virus-killing lighting, increased cleaning, and we observe social distancing, etc. I’m extremely proud to share […]
GEO’s Model Taking Root
Dec 14, 2021
Gary, Indianapolis and Baton Rouge. . . College Banners are Popping Up Everywhere! Three years ago, I posted on Facebook the bottom center picture showing several banners posted in our Haskins and Williams Athletic Center listing the names of students from our Gary school who earned college degrees while in our high school. We are […]
Have you ever left home for a while and returned to notice perhaps a plant has a new bloom or a tree got bigger? Well, with Covid, it has been hard to get to all GEO schools over the past year but this past month, I was able to visit all of our schools. And […]
New Beginnings, Unexpected Endings
Oct 13, 2021
September has been quite a month. We’ve experienced huge swings in emotions, from elation to great sadness. Earlier this year, we concluded a national search for a great principal for our newest school in Indianapolis–GEO Next Generation High School. Jeffrey Carter (upper right) was chosen and he moved to Indy from Dallas to take the […]
Summer is over! Argh! Well, we really never take a break anyway so it isn’t that big of a deal. Our seven school network staff in Gary, Indianapolis and Baton Rouge continued serving 3200 students throughout the summer to help students catch up and accelerate their learning. Our schools in Indiana opened August 2nd and […]