Young Women’s Preparatory Network, the largest all girls’ college preparatory network in the
nation, held its Leadership Summit on September 14 and 15 with its principals,
key team members and staff. A highlight of the conference was hearing from The
Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison at Joyce and Larry Lacerte’s home on September
14.
Lynn McBee, Young Women’s Prep CEO, introduced Hutchison. “Kay has done so much for public education. She is the one who championed the amendment making single-sex schools legal in public school district, and we now have the largest network in the country.”
Lynn McBee, Young Women’s Prep CEO, introduced Hutchison. “Kay has done so much for public education. She is the one who championed the amendment making single-sex schools legal in public school district, and we now have the largest network in the country.”
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| Malinda Villalobos (Ysleta), Lynn McBee (YWPN CEO), Jeanne Goka-Dubose (Austin), Delia Montelongo-McLerran (San Antonio), The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mia Hall (Fort Worth), Delesa O’Dell-Thomas (Houston), Jennifer Oliver (Grand Prairie), Berta Fogerson (Lubbock), Lisa Curry (Dallas) |
Young Women's Prep was founded in 2002. This network is the result of
Lee and Sally Posey’s vision: the Texas philanthropists were inspired by a 2001
visit to a new single-sex, college preparatory, public school in New York City:
The Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem.
The first and
largest of its kind in Texas, Young Women’s Prep formed the first
public/private partnership with DISD in 2004, opening the Irma Lerma Rangel
Young Women’s Leadership School, the first all-girls public school in
Texas. Since then, Young Women’s Prep has opened schools in Austin, Fort
Worth, Grand Prairie, Houston, Lubbock and San Antonio. There are plans to open
additional schools.
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| Patty Leyendecker, Quincy Lacerte, Joyce Lacerte, Brent Christopher |
An astounding 100% of the students
graduate from high school and are accepted to a college or university. In 2014-2015,
the network’s 247 graduates received more than $29 million in academic and
merit scholarships and have matriculated to 87 different colleges and
universities.
Young Women’s
Prep network schools serve students in grades 6 through 12 on seven campuses
across the state of Texas. Approximately 70 percent of all students come from
economically disadvantaged homes, and 68 percent of the students in the Class
of 2015 are first generation college students.
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| Michele Vobach, Elizabeth Jones, Margaret Kelliher, Laura Estrada |
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