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THE LIFE SKILLS CENTER OF SOUTHWEST COLUMBUS GRADUATES 27 STUDENTS
Community-based charter high school will grant state-certified High School Diplomas to 27 young men and women December 18, 2003
COLUMBUS, OH - December 15, 2003 - White Hat Management (WHM) today announced that its Life Skills Center of Southwest Columbus will hold its commencement ceremony this month to present 27 area students with state-certified high school diplomas.
The Life Skills Center of Southwest Columbus
will host its commencement at Gala Events Southwest (4461 Broadway,
Grove City, Ohio) on Thursday, December 18, 2003 at
7:00 p.m. The evening will feature a keynote address by Pastor Victor
Davis of Trinity Baptist Church of Columbus, Ohio. A reception will
follow, and the public is invited to attend.
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams," Administrator of the Life Skills Center of Southwest Columbus, Anikta Grayson said. "I know that Life Skills Centers are a positive force within the communities and the hearts of the people that we serve."
"On behalf of the entire Board of Trustees of the Life Skills Centers of Columbus, I want to express how proud we are of our second graduating class," said Steve Boone, President, Board of Trustees of the Life Skills Centers of Columbus. "This class has performed excellently in setting a standard that all future classes can strive to attain."
The Life Skills Center of Southwest Columbus 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 three Columbus-area schools, tuition-free Life Skills Centers are also located in Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Elyria, Middletown, Springfield, Toledo, Warren and Youngstown, Ohio; 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.
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