LeBron James’ I Promise School Representatives Are Criticizing The Board

At a meeting in Akron, Ohio, on Monday night, the LeBron James-backed I Promise School was given support after it was claimed that the school had produced “discouraging” student test results.

LeBron James’ I Promise School Representatives Are Criticizing The Board

To help the most disadvantaged children in Akron, the district and foundation jointly established the school. By the conclusion of the second grade, students must test in the worst 25% of reading scores in the district to be admitted to the school. No other school in the nation seems to use a comparable strategy to segregate low-performing kids so early in their academic careers.

The organization gives children and their families a lot of assistance, including covering their basic requirements like shelter and food as well as giving parents employment training and high school equivalency studies. Additionally, the organization has funded extra instructors and tutors at the school with up to $1.4 million in yearly assistance from the foundation.

Among others who stood out for comment was Victoria McGee, senior director of the LeBron James Family Foundation and the I Promise School Family Resource Center. She blasted the Akron Public Schools board and described the officials’ actions as “detrimental” to the school body.

“Your actions degraded every Akron Public Schools educator that has ever taught the current and past I Promise students that you have singled out locally and nationally,” McGee said, via the Akron Beacon Journal. “Absolutely, it was hurtful to the LeBron James Family Foundation, but more importantly, detrimental to our students.”

Derrick Hall, the board’s president, made it plain that he disagreed with McGee’s remarks.

“If you go back and you actually watch the board meeting, nobody on this board, no speaker or presenter made any comments that any rational person would call belittling, bullying or anything of that nature,” Hall said, adding “there’s a distinction between what the board says, and how folks take what we say and craft their own self-serving narratives.”

 

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