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THE LIFE SKILLS CENTER OF LAKE ERIE GRADUATES 40 STUDENTS
Community-based charter high school will grant state-certified High
School Diplomas to 40 young men and women December 12, 2003.
CLEVELAND, OH - December 10, 2003 - White Hat Management (WHM) today
announced that its Life Skills Center of Lake Erie will hold a
commencement ceremony this month to present 40 area students with
state-certified high school diplomas.
The Life Skills Center of Lake Erie will host its commencement at Tri-C Metro Campus Auditorium (2900 Community College Avenue) on Friday, December 12, 2003 at 6:30 p.m. The evening will feature a keynote address by Nevin Jenkins, an educational and motivational speaker. A reception will follow, and the public is invited to attend.
"This commencement is a celebration of the efforts and perseverance that these young men and women have exhibited," Life Skills Center of Lake Erie Administrator Jeremy Batchelor said. "They deserve to be commended for their accomplishments, and now we charge them to utilize the skills and lessons learned to move forward in living their dreams."
"Congratulations on your outstanding achievement," said Robert Townsend, president of the nonprofit board of Life Skills Center of Lake Erie. "We hope this will be the beginning of your educational experience, as you continue to expand your opportunities for advancement and a better life."
The Life Skills Center of Lake Erie's winter graduates join students from Life Skills Centers nationwide who will graduate with their high school diplomas this December. They will join the over 2,800 students who have graduated since the first LSC was founded in 1999. In addition to the Lake Erie school, tuition-free Life Skills Centers are also located in Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Elyria, Middletown, Springfield, Toledo, Warren and Youngstown, Ohio; and in Phoenix, Arizona and Denver, Colorado. They serve more than 7,500 students.
WHM's Life Skills Centers are proving to be one of the nation's most successful programs for helping high school dropouts or at-risk students earn a high school degree...not a GED. The program features a proprietary curriculum that combines academics, life skills preparation and workplace training. Much of the instruction is computer-based, with state-certified teachers acting as facilitators to help students learn at their own pace. Life Skills Centers do not assign grade levels to students. Upon enrollment, each student receives an Individualized Academic and Career Plan, which guides him or her through the curriculum and toward the diploma. The schools provide a safe, secure, positive learning environment.
Akron-based White Hat Management, LLC, is Ohio's largest operator of charter schools and ranks among the premier full-service Educational Management Organizations (EMOs) in the United States dedicated to educating K-12 students. The company, which was founded in 1998 by Akron, Ohio industrialist and education activist David Brennan, operates three types of schools: Life Skills Centers; HOPE Academies, which are community-based charter public schools for kindergarten through eighth grade; and OHDELA Academy, which provides distance learning resources for home schooling. White Hat Management, on behalf of the non-profit boards it serves, currently operates 32 schools, which employ over 1,300 people, educating and supporting nearly 15,000 students.
For more information, visit www.whitehatmgmt.com