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KEVIN TEASLEY President, GEO Foundation CEO, 21st Century Charter Schools
Kevin Teasley didn't have clear-cut expectations when he and a small group of reform-minded dreamers opened 21st Century Charter School in 2002.
The publicly funded-yet-independent schools were brand new in Indiana, and no one really knew what came next. Would 21st Century's one-room school-house approach draw talented teachers? Would students respond to a different kind of education?
Organizers had high hopes, to be sure, but they operated more on instinct than anything else.
"We were brash. We were bold. We…