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In the News

The Principal of the Boston Renaissance Charter School, Dr. Roger Harris, has been honored by the U.S. Secretary of Education as one of ten recipients of the John Stanford Education Heroes Award. He has been headmaster of the school since 1998. He was also recently named the Thomas C. Passios Outstanding Middle Level Principal of the year by the Massachusetts Elementary School Principals' Association.

The Boston Renaissance Charter School is a citywide K-8 public school which develops the academic competence, confidence, character and citizenship of its urban-based students. Its rich and rigorous curriculum was developed in partnership with Edison Schools, a nationally known educational management company, and is complemented by programs in technology, fine arts, music, dance, theatre and athletics. It was one of the first schools to receive a charter in Massachusetts and remains one of the largest, single site charter schools in the nation.

Harris, who holds a PhD from Boston College, a Masters from Boston State College and a Bachelors degree from Boston University, saw combat as a US marine in Vietnam before being honorably discharged.

A Boston native, and a product of the Boston Public School System, Harris is the widely acclaimed former principal of the Timilty Middle School in Roxbury. He has placed priority on instructional excellence in each Renaissance classroom. Following a thorough review process, the Boston Board of Education last year unanimously awarded Renaissance a new charter valid through June 30, 2005.

Photo (Roger Harris)