from the archives: June 2009
This year, two new partnerships in the South Bay – with Summit Preparatory Academy, a Redwood City charter high school, and Stanford New Schools, a charter school management organization with two sites in East Palo Alto – will help Aim High reach families in need and build strong ties to the South Bay’s education community.
In Redwood City, Aim High’s summer site, which was founded last year, will move to the campus of Summit Preparatory High School.
Summit Prep opened in 2003 and its charter management organization, The Summit Institute, is slated to open a second location – Everest Public High School – in fall 2009.
In East Palo Alto, Stanford New Schools will open its East Palo Alto Academy High School campus to host Aim High’s summer program.
Stanford New Schools, a non-profit organization formed in collaboration with the Stanford University School of Education, operates two charter schools – one kindergarten through eighth grade school and one high school – serving East Palo Alto students.
Nikki Lasley of Stanford New Schools looks forward to bringing Aim High’s myriad learning opportunities to the SNS community. “Middle school students will be exposed to life beyond high school through the rigorous and exciting summer school program. Also, some of our high school students are gaining an excellent opportunity to grow as leaders by mentoring middle school youth as Teaching Assistants.”