At the GEO Foundation, we believe that all children should have access to a quality education.

We embrace all quality educational options that enable parents to help their children learn and schools to succeed. Through an aggressive community outreach and the introduction of options that empower families, GEO strives to make educational choice a reality for all families.

At GEO, we take great care to ensure that the information we provide is factual, informative and helpful. We hope you will make use of the information on this site, and use GEO as a resource when you share information about education reform with your community.
 

Our Mission:

The Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation believes that all children should have access to a quality education.

We embrace all quality educational options that enable parents to help their children learn and schools to succeed. Through extensive community outreach, educational awareness programs, promotion of options that empower families and the creation of new options, the GEO Foundation strives to make educational choice a reality for all families, regardless of ethnicity or income.

GEO supports all quality means of educating children including public, private, charter, religious, and home. We believe that all of these educational choices have the potential for excellence. We work to help parents obtain the right to choose the educational option that is best for their child.

We also work to develop community understanding of school choice. We firmly believe that by presenting parents with a menu of educational options including public, private, charter and home, we will strengthen all schools, creating excellent education for all children. GEO Foundation specializes in building community awareness, grassroots leadership and support for educational options.


Local focus, national impact:
The GEO Foundation, a non-profit 501(c) 3 research and educational institution, was founded under the leadership of President, Kevin Teasley, in June 1998. GEO's outreach has grown steadily, and our work is having a national impact…

Addressing the needs of the entire country is nearly impossible for any single organization, and the best way to assist the national movement is to create positive examples at the local level. To this end, the GEO Foundation is promoting the national cause for market-based education reforms by perfecting its work at the local level in Indiana and Colorado. GEO has been the subject of two front-page stories in the New York Times, and there have been numerous news accounts in the Indianapolis Star, Denver Post, and Colorado Springs Gazette. Last March, Forbes magazine published a full-page feature on GEO's work with the grassroots and our fact-finding trips to Milwaukee that have introduced hundreds of people to school choice. In addition, GEO has been invited to work with leaders at the Heritage Foundation, and in various states including New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico and Delaware. Most recently we have been the subject of extensive news coverage in the Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis Business Journal for our sponsorship of the 21st Century Charter School which is authorized by Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, and opened in August 2002.

GEO's staff has a proven ability to implement a vision, extensive experience and knowledge of education reform issues, and a large national network of supporters. With more than thirty years of combined experience working directly with grassroots organizations, advocacy organizations for parental empowerment policies in K-12 education, legislatures and the media, GEO has demonstrated success in the public policy arena.