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Great Oaks Awarded $1.5M YouthBuild Grant to Empower Central Iowa Youth

December 17, 2024

Great Oaks High School & Career Center, managed by Oakmont Education, is thrilled to announce its selection as a recipient of a $1.5 million Department of Labor YouthBuild Grant. This major investment will provide transformative educational and workforce development opportunities for opportunity youth in Des Moines, Iowa. Creating Pathways to Success The YouthBuild program is…

Oakmont Education: Expanding Capacity on the Leadership Team

August 20, 2024

Oakmont is pleased to announce the appointment of Nate Miller as the new CEO, effective July 16th. Nate, a Northeast Ohio native, brings diverse leadership experiences to the role. He served as a US Army officer for four years, including leading an engineer platoon in Afghanistan, experiences that have deeply shaped his leadership philosophy and…

Oakmont Education named a FINALIST for the YASS Prize!

January 3, 2023

We are incredibly honored to announce that we are the YASS Prize Winner of the 2022 STOP Award for Sustainability! We cannot express enough gratitude to the Yass Family for their support in growing Oakmont Education’s vision to change lives and positively impact our communities by transforming under-resourced opportunity youth into responsible, educated, and skilled…

Oakmont Education Named a Semifinalist for the YASS Prize! $1 Million Prize to Transform Education

October 17, 2022

We have made it to the next round! We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Oakmont Education is a Yass Prize Semifinalist! Learn more about the YASS foundation here! Cris Gulacy-Worrel, our VP of Advocacy and Development, and Dr. Jerry Farley, our VP of Career Technical Education attended the YASS Prize STOP Award Semifinalists announcement event…

Oakmont student featured on 60 Minutes

March 24, 2021

We’re so proud of Kayla DePriest and the teachers and staff at Franklinton Prep High School in Columbus, Ohio. Watch the full piece here.

Educators can’t let students slip through cracks

October 29, 2020

Chuck Hall Opinion contributorCincinnati.com/opinions Some call the students in my school “at-risk youth.” I prefer to call them “opportunity youth.” That’s because for nearly all of our 250 students, Marshall High School, a charter school in Middletown, provides an opportunity to change the trajectory of their lives. After struggling or failing at more traditional schools,…

“New high school in Mansfield to focus on non-traditional students” – Mansfield News Journal

June 30, 2020

We’re excited to provide students in Mansfield a way to ear their diploma and industry certification starting in Fall 2020. “We know that every student learns differently. Our approach is to understand what each student needs to succeed and help them chart a path to graduation,” director Danielle Kelley said. “Our flexible school hours, individualized…

Congratulations to the Old Brook Class of 2020!

June 30, 2020

We’re so proud of our staff and students who continued to defy the odds, even during a global pandemic! Check out their amazing graduation video here.

“Towpath Trail High School gives students the tools to build a better future” – Thomas B. Fordham Institute

June 30, 2020

Towpath Trail aluma Razya Tazamir’s 7,000-mile journey led her from a refugee camp in Turkmenistan to college in Northeast Ohio. Read her full story here.

Oakmont Schools announces #ReadyForAnything distance learning for 2020 and beyond

May 6, 2020