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July 18, 2010

When Will Montgomery County Learn to Embrace Charter Schools?

Jeanne Allen:

When I arrived at the Crossways Community in Kensington, I felt as if I had discovered a little-known gem.

Nestled on several acres behind an older neighborhood is an integrated learning environment that spans generations. It's a place families can go to become healthy, single mothers can go to reshape their lives and become effective parents, children from all backgrounds can join in a diverse Montessori community and school, and people of all races and ethnicities can advance their education, language skills and more.

It is a place where one woman's enrollment in the family education program while her daughter attended the early education program yielded her child a full ride to the private Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart and later a Posse Scholarship to Grinnell College in Iowa.

"When they see their children really improving, they start seeing a future for themselves," Crossways President Kathleen Guinan told me.



Posted by jimz at July 18, 2010 8:52 AM
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