Chris Wilson and Lorraine Sheehan Wilson

Seeing great leadership and great ideas impresses us to invest, and in its first decade, the Partnership have proved themselves to be a team of great leaders with great ideas we believe should be expanded and replicated.

We’re in favor of all sorts of educational choice, so the work that the Partnership does aligns with our mission. We celebrate whenever a school succeeds, and a Partnership education succeeds on more than one level. Beyond excellent academics, they provide faith, morals, and spirituality that help instill in students that their lives are meaningful and have so much purpose. It is also wonderful to see how they encourage family involvement and buy-in.

We are in full support of their strategy to continue expanding their impact in Cleveland and New York, along with their plan to spread their methods nationally and help other schools do better. There is much work still to do to ensure that urban schools provide students the whole education they need to flourish. We know Partnership Schools have proved that they can do just that.