To determine feasibility of a Bay Area Charter School serving at-risk and/or underprivileged youth that utilizes:

• A completely interdisciplinary and project-based curriculum that is administered at every level via the Socratic Method of instruction;

• Thereby fostering the empirical reasoning, and otherwise critical and creative thinking skills necessary to significantly increase the number of college admissions among targeted students; and,

• To create the kinds of morally, cognitively and emotionally superior citizens needed by the world today to;

• Effectively dismantle the significant barriers that stand between both humanity’s continued survival, and the realization of universal human rights (the two being inexorably linked);

• This goal requiring individuals that are guided by a deep-seated knowledge of the “Self” as it exists within a deeply contextualized literary & scientifically-based understanding of human history, and as a result are;

• Devoted to the ethically driven application of the whole of the scientific, literary and social disciplines toward the achievement of a truly all-inclusive greater good, which shall require;

• A new standard governing the professional enrichment and personal growth of teachers – one that requires not just the mastery of a given discipline, but also demands that an instructor apply his or her knowledge in a wholly collaborative, lattice-structured, and forever evolving venue that is free of traditional disciplinary boundaries, and as a result;  

• Create a school culture steeped in the rigorous deconstruction that defines critical theory – the practice of which shall be applied to the ongoing “problematization of pedagogy” needed to administer said curriculum, with vital support coming from;

• Parents and community members, whose informed contributions will be key to maintaining a virtually seamless, community-wide educational environment, thus helping to ensure optimal learning outcomes, and in doing so;

• Shall help re-define “public” education as both a holistic, student-centric exploration of the whole of the Human Condition, as well as a charting of the possibilities presented by the human capacity for proactive, intellectually driven and morally guided evolution.



We are currently in the first stages of research and development and are actively seeking to:

1. Determine a community in the San Francisco Bay Area that would support a school that would serve at-risk students in grades 7-12;
2. Identify a mechanism to provide a sustainable stream of long-term operating and capital funding for the school;
3. Determine the availability of and the means to acquire a campus capable of providing 300 students with the appropriate academic and recreational facilities;
4. Identify private donors willing and able to provide initial capital for the project’s start-up, including pre-opening ramp-up funding as well as funding to support sub-scale operations;
5. Assess the availability of qualified, talented administrative leaders, teachers and other administrative personnel; and
6. Determine the feasibility of tapping into the capital financing structures necessary to support the development of facilities needed for a “full-time” high school with an “around the clock” academic and extracurricular support structure.