(Left to right) Evans’ Community Partnership School Assistant Director Alexandria Turnley; Evans’ CPS Director Curtesa Vanderpool; UCF Center for Community Schools Assistant Director Donnie Hale; and North Carolina visitors Eliza Mathew, Josh Podl, Amaya Jackson and Songia Wynn at Evans High School
“History in the making,” wrote Duke University student Songia Wynn as she reflected on her recent visit to two Community Partnership Schools in Orlando — Evans High School and the Orange County Public Schools Academic Center for Excellence.
“The only time I have known of a mass community effort similar to Evans/OCPS ACE is during the civil rights movement and I wasn’t alive to see that,” wrote Wynn, who is majoring in African and African American Studies. “I have never seen a community come together for the benefit of not only the community itself but for the generations coming after.”
Wynn was part of a group from Duke and North Carolina Central University who traveled to Florida this month to see Community Partnership Schools in action …
