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 […]
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GEO’s North Star–Student Achievement
Feb 23, 2022
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 […]
Those of us who have been fighting for school choice for more than 30 years know all too well the stories of families with children stuck in dead-end schools. Just yesterday, I saw a headline about a school district in California that is called a “pipeline to prison.” I’ve heard this so many times over […]
Am I stoked? You bet I am! Imagine my face when I woke up to read an essay from one of our 2021 21st Century Charter School at Gary graduates featured in Chalkbeat, one of the nation’s leading online education journals. Brianna Moore is a very special young lady. She enrolled with us as a […]
GEO Launches First-of-Its Kind, Private, Statewide Virtual/On Campus K12-to-College School
Jun 04, 2021
When we started the Greater Educational Opportunities (GEO) Foundation back in 1998, we did so because we don’t believe one size fits all. Families and their students need options. And, when we started GEO, we did so with the expressed intentions of serving those who need serving most–low-income and minority students. That’s why GEO advocated […]
Since 2001, we have focused on breaking down the barriers to college and successful careers for low-income and minority youth. We have worked with schools and families to convince students they are college capable and we’ve created a unique model to do so. We’ve developed our programs over the years to go beyond the “landscape […]