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After spending much of this year promising and then implementing various reforms, the...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune All students deserve top-quality education The June 16 column, “Promising students can become Visible Men,” by Louis Parker, CEO of Visible Men Academy, rightly highlights that education is the key to ending the cycle of poverty. The academy’s curriculum stresses high-level science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, and a character-based education model that is in direct conflict with equity/liberal education that supports a watered-down curriculum and theory (i.e, all math answers are acceptable, highlighting a curriculum designed to make everyone f...

One of Sarasota County’s and Manatee County’s most high-profile educators has broken his silence on why he stepped down from the charter school he founded.  Neil Phillips, one of the four co-founders of the Manatee charter school Visible Men Academy, had resigned with little public explanation in February. His unexplained departure was particularly mysterious because he gave no notice to the vast network of supporters who funded nearly $1 million of the school’s annual budget.  Following a story on his departure that ran in Monday’s Herald-Tribune, Phillips released a lengthy statem...

Visible Men Academy in Manatee County moves on from founder’s exit Louis Parker didn’t have much in common with his classmates at Phillips Academy Andover in 1969. The child of an uneducated facilities manager, Parker showed up at the nation’s most elite boarding school having grown up on a diet of government cheese and powdered milk. His dad couldn’t read. His buddy Jeb, meanwhile, lived in the same dormitory and would become Florida’s governor, while Jeb’s father and brother would both go on become president of the United States. Parker had gotten a scholarship to Phillips Acad...

Students learn how to protect themselves from sexual predators thanks to local author's book We take a look about how educators are teaching kids in Florida about sexual abuse. and last updated 2021-03-03 17:40:03-05 BRADENTON, Fla. — While many schools are teaching students how to stay safe from COVID-19, one Manatee school is making sure kids know how to keep their bodies safe from sexual predators. Students at Visible Men’s Academy, a Title One school in Bradenton, are learning about sexual abuse through a book called “Let’s B Safe.” Wendi Lane The local author, Br...