Every semester, Esperanza Academy Charter School holds a Parent-Teacher Conference for both the High School and the Middle School as an opportunity for parents to meet the student’s teachers on a one-on-one basis and discuss any positives and negatives of their academic standing. Parents follow their students’ schedule getting to experience what a normal day looks like…
Esperanza’s Housing and Economic Development (EHED) neighbor driven revitalization division kicked off the Spring season with a “Family Fun Night” last Friday, March 17. Families and community members from the Hunting Park area attended the Spring celebration and enjoyed dinner with their neighbors, learned about available resources, participated in a raffled and even made their own…
The Esperanza Chess Team battled it out with Masterman beneath an Egyptian Sphinx in the Penn Museum of Archeology in the Philadelphia Scholastic Chess Finals last March 3. Facing a middle school team that had been playing since kindergarten and whose average rating is double ours, Esperanza fought hard on all seven boards. We narrowly missed…
Friday, March 3 the drama majors performed at the second Esperanza Academy Annual Monologue Festival where students wrote and performed original monologues about broken family relationships, hilarious anecdotes, technology connections vs human connections, and political satire. Dwight Wilkins, Esperanza Academy Drama Teacher, has been teaching script analysis at Esperanza Academy High School for three years and explained how…
The New York Times, Feb. 22. 2017. Immigrants Hide, Fearing Capture On “Any Corner” talks about the fear of deportation of many Latinos based on new policies that call for speedier deportations and the hiring of 10,000 ICE agents. Executive Director of Esperanza’s Immigration Legal Services (EILS), Mary Clark, spoke about the concerns she has heard from…
Esperanza Academy Middle School students, Berlin and Manuel, were featured on Telemundo 62 last night on the 6 p.m. news regarding their passion for film and acting. For the past 6 years, the Dominican Republic natives and all time best friends, have been making YouTube videos to showcase their passion for storytelling. “Ever since I was a…
Last Friday, Feb. 10 Esperanza Cyber Charter School celebrated the graduation of four students with family and friends. Congratulations to all the graduates on accomplishing this milestone, go change the world! Check out photos below!
One of Esperanza board members, Dario Bellot, was featured recently in El Sol Latino News for his empowering trajectory and social change initiatives. Read more here.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 8, 2017. Philadelphia, PA. – Esperanza has actively participated in the national push for comprehensive immigration reform for close to two decades. We are concerned that the recent and ongoing actions of the new presidential administration may be overly harsh and unnecessary for the accomplishment of goals related to maintaining our…
The Barrio Youth Initiative launched the year-long BYI leadership program on Saturday, Jan. 21 which inspires, equips and resources youth ministers to be better leaders in serving Latino youth. Youth leaders submitted an application along with their team and made a commitment to learn together for the next year. “We are very excited about this developing youth…
