About Us
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“Advance Baton Rouge Charter School Association’s mission is to create schools of academic excellence by increasing teacher quality and raising student achievement.” Formed in the spring of 2005 as a collaborative effort of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Commerce, and 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge, Advance Baton Rouge (ABR) was designed to promote systemic change in public education. In its initial stage, ABR was designed to undertake reform initiatives that would dramatically improve student, teacher and school leader performance in the region’s public education system. Today, ABR is a non-profit Charter School Management Organization (CMO) currently serving over 1600 students in five free, open enrollment public charter schools in the Greater Baton Rouge Area. In May of 2008, ABR, in partnership with the Louisiana Recovery School District, was awarded the charters of three chronically poor performing schools in south Louisiana: Glen Oaks and Prescott Middle Schools in Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupee Central High School in New Roads. In March of 2009, ABR was awarded two additional schools: Lanier and Dalton Elementary in Baton Rouge that currently serve as feeder schools for Glen Oaks and Prescott Middle Schools. Through the implementation of TAP: the System for Teacher and Student Advancement, a nationally recognized, data-driven, education reform model, ABR is creating a backbone for accomplishing its mission of raising teacher quality and raising student achievement. Visit one of our schools today to see how we are changing the face of education in the Greater Baton Rouge Area by putting students and teachers first. |
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