COLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE NEWS RELEASE Media Contact: Kesha Garrett, 614.372-2310 or [email protected] Nationally-Outspoken Education Advocate to Headline Columbus Urban League Empowerment Day Best-selling author, award-winning principal, and CNN education contributor Dr. Steve Perry to challenge status-quo As founder of one of the best performing charter schools in America -- sending 100% of its minority students to four-year colleges -- Dr. Steve Perry is an outspoken advocate for education reform. And he’ll challenge the Columbus community to further innovate its school when he headlines the Columbus Urban League 2014 Empowerment Day celebration next week. “As an education reformer, Dr. Perry has distinguished himself in his own entrepreneurial endeavors and his blunt, no-nonsense approach to education for our urban children,” said Stephanie Hightower, President and CEO of the Columbus Urban League. “Dr. Perry is leading a call for everyone to take a role in ensuring that all children read and learn. His time here in Columbus will provoke and invigorate the entire community to continue our progress toward becoming a city where every child reads at least at grade level.” Dr. Perry is the founder and principal of what U.S. News and World Report cited as one of the top schools in the country, Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, Connecticut. Capital Prep has sent 100% of its predominantly low-income, minority, first-generation high school graduates to four-year colleges every year since its first class graduated in 2006. He has been an education contributor for CNN, MSNBC, and Essence Magazine. His insights have been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network and TV One. His new book is “Push Has Come to Shove: Getting Our Kids the Education They Deserve, Even If It Means Picking a Fight,” with thought-provoking and insightful messages on how teachers can make readers out of kids who hate to read, how parents can conduct education...
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:07:18 +0000
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