Ok, where do I start? This was quite a week. And no, I’m not talking about the stock market. I’m talking about a great school choice week! We’ve been busy! We received a $10,000 contribution from Old National Bank in support of our college success efforts, reached agreement on buying a new 20-acre, two-school building property […]
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As we remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today for all the great things he did and stood for while on this earth, let us not forget that in 1944, at age 15 and as a junior in high school, he passed the entrance test and enrolled in Morehouse College. He earned a full bachelor’s […]
In recent months, several studies have been conducted on funding disparities between traditional public schools and public charter schools. Most focus on the “average” disparity between the schools. Look a little deeper and you will find the inequity to be much bigger in Gary, Indiana. Using numbers provided by the Indiana Department of Education, Gary […]
On December 30, 2018, the Chicago Tribune ran an article (click that link) titled, “High Flyers seek College Degrees While in High School.” The picture from the article is above and features Erin Lewis, Shania McDonald, Kyleah Martin, Lillian Santana and Abram Lewis. Well, where are they in terms of meeting their goal of earning […]
Dear Friends, I know we are all looking forward to finishing out the year of Covid and getting on with our lives in 2021, but I wanted to take a few minutes to share all the good things that happened in 2020 and to thank you for your continued support and friendship. Believe it […]
Dear Friends: Back in 1992, when I was campaigning for school choice in South Central Los Angeles, I visited Dr. Anjim Palmer, founder of an all-black private school. He told me he was of course in support of school choice. But, then he taught me one of the most valuable lessons of my life. He […]
October 26, 2020 Dear Friends: I woke up this morning and found this post from one of my students in Gary, Indiana on my Facebook feed. I love to see this type of initiative from our students. While Max is trying to raise funds for our athletics program, please read beyond that. The pain, the […]
Dear Friends: Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome (above and below) joined the Board of Directors for GEO Academies earlier this week to cut the ribbon on our fourth campus opening in the past five years. This time, we cut the ribbon for GEO Next Generation High School of Baton Rouge. This is an $11 […]
Dear Friends: The Center for Reinventing Public Education released an important study today showing Indiana schools serving mostly poor and minority students receive approximately $4700 less per student than schools serving the rest of the state’s students. The study said this amounts to about a third less than all other schools. Yet, the report said […]
Please plan to join us on October 6 at 10 a.m. for our ribbon cutting ceremony to open Baton Rouge’s newest high school, GEO Next Generation High School of Baton Rouge. Mayor Sharon Weston Broome will be with us to cut the ribbon. GEO Next Generation High School is a very different high school in […]