External Information

  1. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  2. The Big Picture Company
  3. EdVisions Cooperative
List of Schools

  1. Clara Mohammed School
  2. New Media Technology Charter School
  3. Bayard Rustin Living Learning Center
External Links

  1. Small Schools Project
  2. Buck Institute for Education
    The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) is a research and development organization working to make schools and classrooms more effective through the use of problem and project based instruction.
  3. Philadelphia Weekly
    "Hip Hop High" Can Mt. Airy's Isaac Ewell turn a $4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation into a successful network of success-driven charter schools in low-income urban black communities?
  4. High School for Recording Arts, St. Paul MN
    Successful PBL school founded by BAEO member and Sr. Technical Assistant to BAEO schools, Tony Simmons and partner David "TC" Ellis
Downloads

  1. BAEO's Quality Statement (draft) (PDF)
  2. Attributes of High Achieving Schools (PDF)
  3. Granting process (DOC)
Other Programs

NATIONAL INITIATVES

  • Scholarship Information
  • NCLB/Project Clarion
  • Parental Choice Options
  • Symposium: The Annual Meeting of BAEO
  • Katrina Relief
    • Small Schools Project

    The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) is a national, nonprofit, membership organization dedicated to raising awareness about the need for and value of quality educational options for African-American and low-income families.

    Having initially focused on advocacy, today BAEO is creating schools based on the philosophy that every child has different educational needs, talents, and interests that need to be met through a variety of educational options.

    BAEO believes schools should empower parents, allow dollars to follow students, hold adults and students accountable for academic achievement, and alter the power arrangements that are the foundation of existing systems.

    In 2003, BAEO received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create 15 new small high schools in partnership with the EdVisions Cooperative and The Big Picture Company.

    The BAEO/Gates Network of Small High Schools seeks groups of individuals, teams or organizations who are interested in assisting us with our mission of creating new small high-quality high schools in low-income urban, black communities.

    Interested parties must care deeply for the souls of black children. We will only partner with those who desire to actively and positively affect the academic, social, physical, emotional and spiritual development of healthy black children.

    The key to the BAEO/Gates Network is in that students are provided with a range of options to meet their individual needs through a small learning community using the project-based instructional approach.