The picture above is one of pure joy. These are our students celebrating their Regional Championship this past weekend. If you’re from Indiana, you know March is a very crazy month. The newspapers have filed several reports on the success
Hard to believe it was 21 years ago this weekend that Forbes Magazine surprised me with a full-page article on the work we were doing at GEO Foundation in support of school choice. Those were fun times…and productive. I had
In 1981, Eugene Lang promised 61 6th graders he would pay their college tuition. All they had to do was complete high school and get accepted to college. The “I Have a Dream” Foundation website reports 60% of these 6th
White papers and policy books can be dry and impersonal so I share this story with my policy friends. At GEO, there is nothing dry, nor impersonal about what we do. We practice school choice policies every day. Today,
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
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
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.
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
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
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