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Improving the academic performance of junior high school boys is key to reversing Wilkinsburg's "legacy of educational failure," said a certified public accountant who wants to open a single-gender charter school in the community. Andre Tucker, a Wilkinsburg native who graduated from Woodland Hills High School in 1997, presented the school board Tuesday with details of his fourth proposal in two years to establish a charter school. He said he would submit a formal 500-page application, which includes enrollment projections and information on funding, in time for the board's next meeting.

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rdfs:comment	Improving the academic performance of junior high school boys is key to reversing Wilkinsburg's "legacy of educational failure," said a certified public accountant who wants to open a single-gender charter school in the community. Andre Tucker, a Wilkinsburg native who graduated from Woodland Hills High School in 1997, presented the school board Tuesday with details of his fourth proposal in two years to establish a charter school. He said he would submit a formal 500-page application, which includes enrollment projections and information on funding, in time for the board's next meeting.
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abstract	Improving the academic performance of junior high school boys is key to reversing Wilkinsburg's "legacy of educational failure," said a certified public accountant who wants to open a single-gender charter school in the community. Andre Tucker, a Wilkinsburg native who graduated from Woodland Hills High School in 1997, presented the school board Tuesday with details of his fourth proposal in two years to establish a charter school. He said he would submit a formal 500-page application, which includes enrollment projections and information on funding, in time for the board's next meeting. "A lot is at stake here: young black lives," Tucker, CEO of the proposed HOPE Leadership Academy for Math and Science, said in an interview before the meeting. "We can't continue a legacy of educational failure in this community." The board rejected his bids in January 2009, September 2009 and in February, citing gender discrimination. Board members did not discuss the plan yesterday. Superintendent Archie Perrin has said the concept would rob Wilkinsburg of its brightest students when the district is wrestling with ideas to improve academic performance. Four of the largely black district's five schools failed to meet state standards in reading and math on last year's Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests. Tucker wants to open the charter school in a 130-year-old church near South Avenue and Center Street. He would start with classes for boys in grades six through eight, but foresees adding one high school grade each year. The state Department of Education approved the HOPE academy for a three-year, $650,000 grant. Academy officials received $50,000; the rest of the money would come if the district grants the charter. More than 3,500 residents and parents in Wilkinsburg, Penn Hills, Pittsburgh and the Woodland Hills School District signed a petition in support of the charter school, which would draw students from those areas.

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