Board members from the Helix Network of Educational Choices, which would run two proposed downtown charter high schools, visited three schools in Washington State this week to see how those schools use the surrounding community to enhance learning. The proposed Baton Rouge schools—Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, and the Arts & Digital Media high schools—would be based at the Shaw Center for the Arts but will utilize downtown museums, the LSU campus and other nontraditional spaces. The group of about a dozen people visited one school in downtown Tacoma, one based in a downtown park, and one located in a public space near Seattle’s Space Needle. The trip was organized by Advance Innovative Education, which is helping to get the schools started, and sponsored by BP America, real estate firm R.W. Day & Associates and consultant Innovation Insights. The state’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will consider approving the two local schools Oct. 15.
Board for proposed downtown schools visits Washington models
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