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LEP  High  is  an innovative public charter school that provides an 21 century   curriculum and real world learning to a diverse group of high school students.  Leadership classes, internships,  project based learning,and the small class sizes make this school  unique.   It is the personal  relationships that the students forge with the staff that sets it apart.  Teachers  at LEP HIGH are able to  provide  a personal connection to students  and  are able to form a meaningful curriculum that engages and excites the students .  They have an impact on their students  lives that is transformative.   Each teacher at this charter school is able to create a curriculum  and are empowered to  be creative and inspiring.   LEP students feel like the school is their home,  and a place they are eager to go to.  It is a school that is already creating  showing traditional PPS schools that you can excite and challenge students, close the achievement gap,  so that students  succeed no matter their      ethnicity or household income.    LEP  HIGH   is a  place where  miracles happen each day.  The PPS board is short sighted in denying LEP HIGHS charter due to fiscal problems .  LEP HIGH is achieving what the PPS system  hopes to accomplish  as it looks at paradigms for the future structure of public high schools.   The educational innovations at LEP HIGH    provide a beacon of light that  PPS should support not extinguish.   

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