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Video Archives
State Superintendent Jack O'Connell - 10 News San Diego from December 10, 2007
Enrollment Open at Gompers Charter Middle - Fox 6 News San Diego from September 1, 2007
Effects of the NCLB Act - The News Hour with Jim Lehrer from August 15, 2007


Print Media

Schools battle over space at shared site - July 4, 2009
Election excitement expressed in many neighborhoods - November 6, 2008
Student Spotlight : Arthur Wilson - March 20, 2008
Educator Spotlight: Vincent Riveroll - January 24, 2008
Choosing to go charter revives inner-city school - February 17, 2007

 

The Gompers Saga Continues - June 30, 2009
Gompers teacher wins statewide award - March 20, 2008
The little charter school that could - June 18, 2007
Charters are here to stay - August 30, 2006
Star-studded gathering to greet Gompers students on first day of school - September 6, 2005


Gompers Charter supporters rally to save campus space, sports field - July 1, 2009
Gompers' Protest over district's latest scheme - June 29, 2009
Chartering a brave course - March 25, 2009




Gompers Preparatory Academy - Our History in the News

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The 2004 - present news articles linked here describe how Gompers Preparatory Academy became who we are today.


Parental Support of UCSD Charter School at Gompers Middle School
La Prensa San Diego - Dec 23, 2004
An opportunity of a lifetime is being offered to the Gompers Middle School community and the residents of San Diego Unified School District, District E by ...

Trustee breaks the ice, outlines plans
signonsandiego.com - Dec 31, 2004
The area has some of the lowest-achieving schools in San Diego Unified. ... to reopen Gompers and Keiller middle schools as charter schools next fall. ...

Parents and teachers walk door-to-door to fulfill a dream
signonsandiego.com - Jan 1, 2005
Keiller and Gompers are among eight schools in the San Diego Unified School District that are under pressure from the federal No Child Left Behind law to ...

Parents Campaign To Make Gompers A Charter School
KGTV, 10News.com - Jan 3, 2005
SAN DIEGO -- Going to college is a dream that many parents from Gompers Middle School hope to live vicariously through their children. ...

4 schools petition for charter status
signonsandiego.com - Jan 4, 2005
Four of eight San Diego city schools that are required to restructure under a federal ... Gompers plans to work with the University of California San Diego, ...

District to study charter status as cure for ailing schools
signonsandiego.com - Jan 6, 2005
The San Diego Unified School District's labor contract with the teachers ... Berry doubts that as a charter school, Gompers will be able to recruit and ...

New charter school requirement draws jeers
signonsandiego.com - Jan 8, 2005
A large crowd of parents and community leaders heckled the San Diego school board ... The schools in question are Gompers Middle School in Chollas View, ...

8 San Diego schools to offer academic plans to improve
signonsandiego.com - Jan 23, 2005
Eight San Diego city schools that have been identified for major changes because ... Gompers, Keiller, King and Memorial have submitted charter proposals. ...

School charter proposals outlined
signonsandiego.com - Jan 26, 2005
The San Diego Unified School District trustees heard presentations last night ... The are are King Elementary, Gompers Middle, Keiller Middle School and ...

Popular Gompers principal loses post
signonsandiego.com - Feb 10, 2005
Five months after Vince Riveroll energized Gompers Middle School with his ... In a closed-door meeting Tuesday, the San Diego Unified School District board ...

Moving of Gompers principal protested
signonsandiego.com - Feb 11, 2005
Principal Vince Riveroll, who joined Gompers five months ago, was suddenly reassigned late Tuesday by the San Diego school board in a closed-door meeting. ...

Union in control
signonsandiego.com - Feb 13, 2005
Highest on the wish list of the San Diego teachers union, ... the board now adds the abrupt transfer of Principal Vince Riveroll from Gompers Middle School. ...

Underperforming Schools Examining Charter Option
KGTV, 10News.com - Feb 28, 2005
SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego school board expects to decide Tuesday whether to convert four underperforming schools into charter schools. Gompers Middle ...

4 schools win charter status
signonsandiego.com - Mar 2, 2005
Under Gompers' charter petition, the middle school will partner with the University of California San Diego and model its academic program after the ...

Enthusiasm counts
signonsandiego.com - Mar 6, 2005
The San Diego Unified School Board has approved charter applications for four schools, including Gompers and Keiller middle schools, receiving a standing ...

Community Organizes for Charter System at Gompers Middle School
La Prensa San Diego - Mar 18, 2005
... of a new charter from the San Diego City Schools Board of Trustees. ... The San Diego Urban League provided guidance to the Gompers Work Group with ...

Program gets an A+
signonsandiego.com - Apr 3, 2005
Organizers of a plan to turn Gompers Middle School in the San Diego Unified district into a charter school propose adding a Saturday session. ...

Middle school students walk a mile for peace
signonsandiego.com - Apr 9, 2005
More than 100 Gompers middle school students walked a mile through southeastern San Diego yesterday to bring attention to violence in their communities and ...

Tickets to better school unclaimed
signonsandiego.com - Apr 11, 2004
Lamar, 17, refused his ticket to a better-performing school in favor of what he knows: Gompers Secondary School in southeastern San Diego, ...

No Child Left Behind: Tales from the Frontlines
PBS - Aug 21, 2005
Two failing San Diego schools are taking NCLB's mandatory corrective action as ... Gompers Secondary and Mann Middle schools are reorganizing into a charter ...

New Middle School Will Displace Hundreds Of Residents
KGTV, 10News.com - Apr 26, 2005
SAN DIEGO -- Trustees for the San Diego Unified School District will consider ... High School, Gompers Middle School and four surrounding elementary schools.

Popular principal to return to Gompers
signonsandiego.com - Jun 2, 2005
A charismatic Gompers Middle School principal removed from his job four months ago despite community protests will return to head the southeastern San Diego ...

Some campuses get last-minute sprucing up
signonsandiego.com - Aug 31, 2005
Like many California school districts, San Diego Unified cut jobs and programs to balance ... At Gompers Preparatory Academy in Chollas View, neighbors,

… -Studded Gathering to Greet Gompers Students on First Day of School
Voice of San Diego - Sep 6, 2005
Today is not just another first day of school for students at Gompers. ... as one of the worst performing schools in the San Diego Unified School District. ...

San Diego becomes home away from home
signonsandiego.com - Sep 7, 2005
"We have told them this morning that we will do that," Schwarzenegger told reporters at Gompers Middle School in San Diego. "We will have places for them ...

Grand jury praises Gompers Preparatory Academy
signonsandiego.com - May 10, 2006
As a charter school, Gompers controls its own hiring, firing, academic programs and operations, but the San Diego school board retains ultimate oversight.

How You Get Things Done
Voice of San Diego - May 22, 2006
... of the leadership at the San Diego Unified School District, ... For nearly 30 years, Gompers began each school year without enough teachers. ...

Choosing to go charter revives inner-city school
signonsandiego.com - Feb 11, 2007
After a protracted political struggle that pitted parents against the San Diego Unified school board, Gompers became an independent charter school in 2005. ...

SignOnSanDiego.com > The San Diego Union-Tribune
signonsandiego.com - Feb 11, 2007
For years, Gompers Middle School was a place parents avoided sending their ... to prison” is how one resident described the southeastern San Diego school. ...

Program helps students avoid gangs
signonsandiego.com - Jul 26, 2007
In San Diego, the concept is in place at Gompers Preparatory Academy and Montgomery Middle School. The results have been dramatic. ...

Online NewsHour: Report | San Diego Schools Adapt | August 15, 2007 |...
PBS - Aug 15, 2007
Tonight is on what some failing schools in San Diego are doing to meet the ... JOHN MERROW: Violence also plagued Gompers Middle School just a few miles ...

Gompers School Director Up For Award
Voice of San Diego - Jan 3, 2008
Gompers is among the best-known charter schools in San Diego, after a blitz of media attention when it opened in 2005. It has won attention for its ...

Gompers resists sharing space
signonsandiego.com - Mar 1, 2008
SAN DIEGO – The Chollas View school that fought for autonomy from the San Diego ... Parents and teachers at Gompers Preparatory Academy are opposed to a ...

Local School Awarded Three-Year State Grant
KGTV, 10News.com - Jul 2, 2008
SAN DIEGO -- Gompers Preparatory Academy in San Diego was awarded a three-year, $296277 state grant, it was announced Wednesday. ...

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