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Bill and Melinda Gates visit Durham Performance Learning Center
10/22/2009
Students and staff at the Durham Performance Learning Center were surprised today by a visit from Bill and Melinda Gates.
DURHAM -- Students and staff at the Durham Performance Learning Center were surprised today by a visit from Bill and Melinda Gates. While a site visit was scheduled, only a handful of people knew that Bill and Melinda Gates themselves would also be visiting the school.
Bud Lavery, executive director of Communities In Schools of Durham, noted “I think it says a lot about the magic that is happening at this school that Bill and Melinda Gates chose to see it firsthand.”
The Gates Foundation has been funding the replication of many of the Performance Learning Centers and other alternatives models of education throughout the United States. The Durham Performance Learning Center, a nontraditional high school, offers a chance to turn academic failure into success for over 100 students who had dropped out or were at risk of dropping out.
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