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Images describe Citizens Academy, a leading charter school in Cleveland, Ohio. I-Open visited Perry White, Founder and Executive Director, Citizens Academy in June 2010 to learn more about his life long work connecting children, learning and justice.

Since 1999, Perry has led a transformative model of charter school education, now a top-performing urban school in the state of Ohio with a national reputation for successful students.

You can learn more in the introductory interview, Connecting Children, Learning and Justice with Perry White at I-Open on Vimeo www.vimeo.com/18102918 

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Connecting Children, Learning and Justice

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Image © Alice Merkel on Flickr

Perry White, Founder and Executive Director, Citizens Academy of Cleveland, Ohio, talks about his passion to connect children, learning and justice in the video below. Since 1999, Perry has led what is now a transformative model of charter school education, and one of the top-performing urban schools in the state of Ohio with a national reputation for successful students.

"I think many people settle and tend to let themselves off the hook,” said Perry White, a former social worker who founded the Citizens’ Academy charter school in Cleveland in 1999 — naïvely, he now recognizes — and has overseen its climb from an F on its state report card in 2003 to an A last year. “It took us a while to understand we needed a no-excuses culture,” he said, one of “really sweating the small stuff." - New York Times, Education, May 1, 2010 Article Here. 

Connecting Children, Learning and Justice from I-Open on Vimeo.

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