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 graders earned a college degree. Last week, Hope Chicago Founder and Co-Chair Pete Kadens announced […]
Archives: February, 2022
School Choices Parents Make Matter
Feb 23, 2022
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, join me in celebrating these two students and the school choice decisions their parents made. […]
GEO’s North Star–Student Achievement
Feb 23, 2022
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 high quality education from kindergarten through college. We do our work by offering different […]