Connecting Children, Learning and Justice

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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. 

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John Zitzner, President, Friends of E Prep Schools Interview 01-07-10

Building Brainpower: Our Most Competitive Regional Asset

John Zitzner, President, Friends of E Prep Schools in Cleveland, Ohio, shares a story of transforming education regardless of circumstance - the first step in revitalizing regional economic sustainability.

In this transcription of John's I-Open interview, he describes how he brings his entrepreneurial zeal and experience in building successful for profit enterprises to connect entrepreneurship and education, transforming workforce development for regional prosperity.

Learn about this successful, replicable investment model of innovation in charter school education celebrated this week, June 14, 2011 - "100% of E Prep's 8th graders and 100% of The Intergenerational School's 8th graders passed the Ohio Achievement READING Assessment. #1 in the county." - John Zitzner.

More about John's work and the work of others building successful charter schools at Breakthrough Charter Schools.

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