New Partnership for New School

in NE Portland

E3 is pleased to announce the selection of a new partnership school for the E3 Oregon Small Schools Initiative.  The Leadership & Entrepreneurship Public Charter High School (LEP) is a new high school forming in Northeast Portland that will serve students entering high school who are looking for options not offered in the current school system.  The school will offer a rigorous, personalized, college-prep curriculum with extensive academic support.  LEP incorporates many effective practices including college preparation for all students, project-based learning, and strong student/adult relationships.

Leadership and entrepreneurship curriculum will be a key theme in all classes as well as taught in a stand-alone course.  The school will lease space from the Northwest College of Construction in NE Holman Street, which will provide needed capacity and technical infrastructure for LEP, but the charter high school will not have a focus on construction.  “We are very pleased to announce this partnership with LEP,” said Karen Phillips, director of the E3 Oregon Small Schools Initiative. ”We look forward to working with the school administrator and teachers, and helping create a new high school model for the 21st century.”

The school will receive technical and coaching assistance from E3 staff to help with school design, curriculum writing and professional development.  In addition, E3 will provide funding up to $500,000 over the next three years. 

The small schools initiative is part of nationwide effort to redesign high schools.  In Oregon, the initiative is generously funded by the Meyer Memorial Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.

LEP plans to open in the fall of 2006.