School Fair for School Choice Week to Highlight Educational Freedom; Expected to Draw Hundreds
January 20 2018 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Wide variety of schools will connect with
local families as they explore their options
Students, parents, teachers, and community leaders will gather
to share information and tips at a school fair planned to coincide
with National School Choice Week.
The event, planned for January 27 starting at 9:00 a.m., will be
an all-day school fair and community gathering where parents and
students will share their school choice stories. More than 250
people are expected to attend the event at the Lightbox Studio
(2600 E. 26th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55406).
The goal of the event is to showcase educational options
available to Minneapolis parents, and has been led by the Minnesota
Harvest Initiative. The Harvest Initiative is a coalition of
African American business owners and professionals committed to
economic participation and educational freedom. The celebration is
timed to coincide with National School Choice Week (January 21-27,
2018), which will feature more than 32,000 events across the
country.
"When I think of school choice, I think of the ability as a
parent to choose a school with a strong educational culture, and
synonymous with that strong educational culture is a school
environment with high expectations. I think the value of such an
environment is actually priceless,” said Benito Matias, co-chair of
Navigating the Waters. “Having high expectations for scholars and
helping them believe in themselves are two of the most important
things we can do to create a strong educational environment. School
choice provides an opportunity for parents to select the school
that makes this possibility a reality for their family."
“Attendance and support of school choice initiatives vitally
inform, nurture and maximize diverse educational opportunity
awareness. As a father, I have arrived at the conclusion that my
children are unique with a completely different set of educational,
artistic, social and emotional needs,” said Arthur C. Turner, III,
school leader for LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performing Arts
and Co-School Leader for Baldwin School Project. “Schools today
often support a specific set of values and clarifying which values
will best serve your child is vastly important. As an educator,
there is a disparity in educational advancement amongst all
ethnicities. This event along with events alike, provide
communities and families an opportunity to decrease such disparity.
Education is the key to global change.”
Event planners include Harvest Initiative, Navigating the
Waters, the Baldwin Education Project, Project Lightbox, SAFE-MN,
Ascension Catholic School, and Lyceum Partners and Design Inc.
Held every January, National School Choice Week is an
independent public awareness effort designed to shine a positive
spotlight on effective education options for every child. Through
more than 32,000 independently planned events across the country,
National School Choice Week raises public awareness of all types of
educational choices available to children. These options include
traditional public schools, public charter schools, public magnet
schools, online learning, private schools, and homeschooling.
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Baldwin School ProjectJames
Ewerjames_ewer@mail.harvard.eduorNavigating the WatersBenito
Matiasbmatias@ascensionschoolmn.orgorMinnesota Harvest
InitiativeReynolds-Anthony Harris,
612-916-9289reynolds.anthony@lyceumpartners-design.com