I think this is a great help with assessments and parents can and do play a big part in helping us complete our education. I think that charter schools are a very good way to get an education because there is more student-teacher contact. In the program we are not just a number, each one of us is a person with a name. The academy does more staff training than the local district, and offers children 210 days a year. The student body is diverse and dedicated.
Plans are underway to expand and build a new facility.
Robert Treat is advised by Seton Hall education school professor Jim Caulfield, a 43-year veteran of the public schools. Kudos to Philadelphia's Universal Institute Charter School and its founder Kenny Gamble, a well-known song writer who has banded together a group of old friends to revitalize the depressed south Philly neighborhood where he grew up. The goal is to challenge the status quo, to use the resources within the community to rebuild it, family by family. Vaughn has experience in rejuvenating communities and is currently building a new center to house middle school students which will aid in easing overcrowding in the greater Los Angeles school district. They've also celebrated the addition of a health and community center and new library over the last few years.