Superintendent's Blog

Every year, we challenge our students to do more than high school while in our high schools. We don't require them to take college or career classes, but we make college and career classes available to all our students. And, we don't place any limits on how many of these classes they can take.

Two of the students pictured above are attorneys today. Three are teachers. One is an executive for the NCAA. One is the chief design engineer for Microsoft. Seventy-five percent of these students earned their bachelor's within four years of graduating from our high school--that's six times the national average.

Earlier this week, U.S. News & World Report released its annual rankings of elementary schools across the country.

Kevin Teasley was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indianapolis Recorder, one of the nation's oldest African American newspapers.

Last week, GEO Academies received approval of an $8.2 million grant to help grow six more schools and serve an additional 2,000 students.

Kevin Teasley, CEO of Geo Academies, joins the show to share the organization’s core mission: getting students onto college campuses.

The Baton Rouge newspaper, The Advocate, featured the BRCC ribbon-cutting celebration on its front page on Labor Day.

It was a great week in Baton Rouge and Baker. On Wednesday, we cut the ribbon at GEO Prep Baker's new location on Bentley Drive. On Thursday, we cut another ribbon at GEO Next Generation High School's Baton Rouge Community College Acadian campus. Both ribbon cuttings signal strong partnerships.

Enrollment is up 16% for the GEO network of schools.