Superintendent's Blog

GEO received approval to open a new set of schools in Cleveland, Ohio, and our GEO Prep Mid City Baton Rouge school and Indianapolis GEO Next Generation Academy received extended charter renewal contract approvals.

Louisiana released School Performance Scores yesterday and all three GEO Academies—GEO Prep Mid City, GEO Prep and GEO Next Generation High School--earned a "B." If you look closer at the scores, you will see Mid City came in as the 7^th best open enrollment elementary/middle school in Baton Rouge, and Prep came in as 12^th best. Next Gen came in as 3^rd best open enrollment high school.

This week started out with a great student visit to Notre Dame and Saint Mary's for four of our superstars attending our GEO Next Generation High School in Indianapolis.

I was in Gary, Indiana this week visiting with our 4th graders and asked, "How many of you want to go to college?" The picture at the top shows you the response I received. Looks like they all do. And, I'm betting everyone will go to college. And, I'm betting everyone will go to college BEFORE graduating from our high school.

Should high schools prepare students for college or careers? That seems to be the big question among ed reformers these days. Why not do both? We do!

In 2002, GEO didn't start a charter school simply to have a school. We set out to break from tradition. Our original goal was simple--help students get into better performing schools. Today, our goals include helping students earn real college degrees and career certifications and experience while in high school.

The new school year is off to the races this week at all GEO Academy Network schools. Our Indianapolis and Gary schools started Monday and all our Baton Rouge area schools started today.

Earlier this week, Louisiana’s Department of Education released statewide literacy rates for students in kindergarten through third grade.

If you know me, you know I love data. I especially like great data. And each of GEO’s Baton Rouge schools produced great data when it comes to reading.

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Today, Mike Bloomberg announced an extraordinary $1 billion gift to Johns Hopkins University to help med students earn their degree tuition free.

I'm not Mike, but I do care about our kids just as much. So, if I want to provide tuition free college education to kids, how can I do that?