Superintendent's Blog

It was terrific to read the August 4th edition of the Wall Street Journal about the efforts of Gary, Indiana Mayor Eddie Melton to remove blight in the city, to reimagine the city and to attract new investment.

The front page of this morning's Gary Post-Tribune features a terrific story about the first day of school at GEO's 21st Century Academy in Gary, Indiana.

The banner above lists the names of 139 students who earned full associate degrees while in our high schools. There are four other students who also earned a full bachelor's while in our high schools.

All of these students graduated from our high schools with college degrees and completely debt free.

All three GEO Prep schools in Baton Rouge and Baker beat the state and their local districts...and by a large margin. That's the easy part of data analysis. But let's look at the data in greater detail to understand what's really going on.

While it has taken some time, I think we have finally convinced all GEO Academies students--including those in Indianapolis and Baton Rouge--to earn more than a high school diploma. And, they are doing this BEFORE graduating from our high schools.

Baton Rouge mom of seven, Moranda Jackson, shares how GEO Foundation charter schools helped her daughters and herself earn college degrees.

The picture of Mrs. Janet Plant, a 68-year-old graduate from GEO's Gary Middle College, needs no captions. She was elated to finally earn her high school diploma. That picture made the front page of the Gary Post Tribune. We celebrated Janet's accomplishment last week with 96 other graduates from GMC, our largest graduating class from our school that serves students needing a non-traditional schedule and approach.