Russ Gregg, Head of School Often I get asked the question, “You are so successful at teaching inner city kids at Hope, couldn’t you remove the spiritual component of what you do and multiply Hope as a movement of government-funded charter schools?” I asked myself the same question with the release of Waiting for Superman, a […]
Hope Academy was the KTIS ministry of the month for April 2010. KARE-11’s Julie Nelson interviewed Head of School Russ Gregg, along with students Elijah Young (seventh grade) and Josiah Remus-Ford. Promos ran on both the FM (98.5) and AM (900) dial. Listen to the Short Promo (1 minute). Listen to the Complete Interview (17 minutes).
by Russ Gregg, Head of School Often I hear people mistake Hope Academy for a charter school. Hope is not a charter school for good reason. Charter schools are merely another variety of public school. They receive all their funding from the government and are subject to most of the same rules and restrictions of […]
Marlene Thomseth first heard about Hope Academy when she was living in a transitional home for women coming out of addiction. “I had just gotten out of jail, and had just been reunited with my son, Treyton,” she says. In his preschool, she says, Treyton was really struggling. “He was so out of control,” she […]
