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THE LIFE SKILLS CENTER OF CLEVELAND GRADUATES 60 STUDENTS
Community-based charter high school will grant state-certified High School Diplomas to 60 young men and women December 17, 2003
CLEVELAND, OH - December 16, 2003 - White Hat Management (WHM) today announced that its Life Skills Center of Cleveland will hold its commencement ceremony this month to present 60 area students with state-certified high school diplomas.
The Life Skills Center of Cleveland will host its commencement at the Tri-C Metro Campus Auditorium on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 at 6:00 p.m. The evening will feature a keynote address by Attorney Jean Murrell Cappers. A reception will follow, and the public is invited to attend.
"The Life Skills Center of Cleveland offers choices to the young men and women who attend," said Administrator of the Life Skills Center of Cleveland, Yolanda Eiland. "It will be the choices they make from this point that will affect the rest of their lives."
"Congratulations on your outstanding achievement," said Robert Townsend, president of the nonprofit board of Life Skills Center of Cleveland. "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 Cleveland'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 three Cleveland-area schools, tuition-free Life Skills Centers are also located in Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Columbus, Elyria, Middletown, Springfield, Toledo, Warren and Youngstown, Ohio; as well as 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.
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