BOURBON – No matter how hard second-ranked Tri-County fought to make a comeback stick after trailing by double-digits early Saturday morning, Gary 21st Century Charter always had an answer in a 69-57 loss in the Class A Triton Regional semifinals. Tri-County (23-3) erased a 14-point first half deficit to take the lead on four different […]
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GARY — Raven Osborne has an amazing story to tell. The 18-year-old high school senior at 21st Century Charter School in Gary will earn a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a minor in early childhood education from Purdue University Northwest on May 5, the same month she will earn a high school diploma from the […]
Rodney Williams, the only boys basketball coach 21st Century has known, took the job in 2008 because it was time to get warm. Williams was a football coach by trade. “It was cold outside,” he said. “I wanted to move inside.” Williams, the Post-Tribune 2016-17 Boys Basketball Coach of the Year, isn’t going back to […]
Joy is something all Indiana boys basketball teams still playing today on Semistate Saturday have. It’s in the bus ride, the locker room and out on the court. There are 16 teams in the four classes who are 32 minutes away from advancing to next Saturday’s state championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. How could this […]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Early College High School Initiative has supported the creation or redesign of nearly 300 schools that serve more than 80,000 students in 31 states and the District of Columbia since 2002. Even more schools and districts have taken on this early college high school design challenge outside the auspices […]
GARY — Core’Von Lott was playing basketball inside the gym at 21st Century a couple of summers ago when his phone rang. It was his mother, who told him he had been accepted as a student into the Gary charter school. Lott was working out at the time with Eugene German, the prolific scorer who […]
Meet Nathan Hook. Nathan is a senior at Pikes Peak Prep, a 12-year-old charter school located in Colorado Springs. Nathan graduates from PPP this May having earned both his high school diploma AND 61 college credits–his two-year Associate Degree from Pikes Peak Community College–while attending PPP. Nathan is proof positive that we can expect more […]
The past few weeks have been filled with terrific school pride events that often don’t get talked about in the media so I thought I would share these five pictures with you directly. In Baton Rouge, our January board meeting featured performances from our cheerleaders and dance team. Our Baton Rouge school serves grades […]
Our nation’s capital is full of countless tales of humble servants who began their terms on an improbable journey to impactful American leadership. The confirmation hearings of Betsy DeVos for U.S. education secretary and the emotional responses of participants and observers demonstrate that education is a cornerstone issue of American leadership. The constant mention of […]
GEO Academies Graduate Working at GEO Foundation The Road that Led Past CollegeDavid K. JonesMarketing Associate | GEO Foundation When I first walked through the doors at Fall Creek Academy, I did not know what to expect. As an 8th grade student that measured around 6-foot-4, the only thing I knew was that I wanted […]