Daily News | Philadelphia school board again denies Global Leadership high school charter application
Naomi Johnson-Booker, the CEO of Global Leadership Academy Charter School — one of the two other Global Leadership schools — and a member of the African-American Charter Schools Coalition, said the district’s evaluation was unfair.
But district officials said the high school qualified as an existing charter operator, given its ties to the other Global Leadership schools: In addition to sharing the “Global Leadership” name, the proposed high school would rely on the educational model used at the existing charters, and planned to contract with Global Academies, a company that provides services to those two schools. The school would give admissions preference to students from the existing Global Leadership charters.
Johnson-Booker said Global Academies wasn’t a management company that would be running the high school but a vendor that answered to her. “I meet with them, I tell them what my needs are,” Johnson-Booker said, adding that the company “provides educational, operational, and financial services to anyone, not just to schools.”
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