Newark Mayor Cory Booker is a man with a serious problem on his hands this morning: He’s getting what he’s long wished for. In Booker’s case, that means the resources and authority to reform his city’s dysfunctional school system. As was reported this morning, Booker is about to receive them via a $100 million gift […]
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About 50 Pikes Peak Prep charter school students will begin using iPads in their core classes this year. It’s a move educators hope will cut costs and expand students’ learning opportunities. “It’s better than staring at paper,” said 10th-grader Eileen Alvarez. The 15-year-old on Wednesday demonstrated the virtual frog dissection application that takes users step-by-step through […]
The Star is right to focus on the importance of funding Indiana’s 21st Century Scholars program (“Dig deep for dollars for scholars,” Sept. 7). The fund is important to help reduce the dropout rate and increase the state’s high school graduation rate, especially for low-income students. But increasing state funding of the program is only […]
Gary Mayor Rudy Clay visited 21st Century Charter School to speak to the student body on Monday, August 30th. With more than 370 students in the gym, from kindergarten to twelfth grade, the Mayor emphasized the importance of literacy, encouraged students to graduate and become successful, and ended with a question-and-answer session. During the course […]
Every year, InfoWorld honors senior IT executives who have demonstrated leadership within their companies and in the IT community. GEO Foundation’s Brian Beck has been selected as one of the CTO 25 Award winners for 2010 for his work to virtualize desktops in an effort to give more of the students at GEO’s four schools […]
Lacy Sramek pretty much missed the social scene during her last two years of high school because she rarely was on campus. She wasn’t skipping. She was in classrooms at Pikes Peak Community College. At her recent high school commencement ceremony, she was handed an associate of arts degree from PPCC along with her high […]
Brush your teeth. Don’t forget mouthwash and deodorant. Pull up the trousers. Comb your hair – and not too much cleavage. Today is internship day. Remember, you will be representing the school as much as yourself. Students at Indianapolis Metropolitan High School are used to hearing such admonishment. Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana Inc. opened […]
Brush your teeth. Don’t forget mouthwash and deodorant. Pull up the trousers. Comb your hair – and not too much cleavage. Today is internship day. Remember, you will be representing the school as much as yourself. Students at Indianapolis Metropolitan High School are used to hearing such admonishment. Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana Inc. opened […]
Storage Networking World (SNW) has selected the GEO Foundation as the winner for its Spring 2010 “Best Practices” Awards Program. GEO Foundation was named winner in the Technology Innovation and Promise category for its excellence in virtualization and storage IT solutions. “We are honored to be chosen as a category winner from SNW,” said Brian […]
Ent Federal Credit Union selected Pikes Peak Prep as a recipient of its Youth Endowment Services (YES) grants for 2010. Introduced in 2000, the YES program directs specific support to organizations benefiting children and young people in the Pikes Peak Region and in and around Pueblo, Denver and Weld Counties. The program has provided total […]