Everest Value Groundbreaking News At long last we can bring you tangible evidence of all your efforts to create a campus worthy of the phenomenal Everest Value School community.
Putting Our Values Into Action: Read for Those In Need On May 25, over 1,600 students at Value Schools participated in a Read-a-Thon to support those in need.
2021 Jerry Awards Each year since 2015 Value Schools celebrates the Jerry Awards. The award is named for our founder, Dr. Jerome Porath, who founded Value Schools in 2000.
Everest Value School's Ground Breaking Ceremony Get ready to celebrate the up and coming, BIGGER and BETTER Everest Value School by breaking ground and taking pictures where Everest’s new home will stand!
Value Schools Alumni to Participate in California-Mexico Dreamers Abroad Program "This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will also allow us to conduct independent travel to our birthplace to conduct ethnographic research on our family origins and connect to our roots."
Pioneers of Everest Value: Chris Medinger Chris Medinger began his Everest Value journey in a conversation with then-CEO Gerry Jacoby: “The bad news is we’re not promoting you to vice-principal. The good news is we’re asking you to start a whole new school.”
Pioneers of Everest Value: Jacqueline Gonzalez-Reyes Jacqueline Gonzalez-Reyes had a flashback when the novel coronavirus upended education in 2020. “It’s just like 2014 and we’re starting a school again! We’re building the plane in the air!”
Pioneers of Everest Value: Edgar Nguyen Edgar Nguyen thought he was meant to be a firefighter, and was just a step or two short of that destination, when by happy accident he agreed to help a friend clean out the basement at Downtown Value School.
Pioneers of Everest Value: Gaines Newborn Gaines Newborn brought the glue. Little did Gaines know 20 years ago that his work with Chris Medinger at the YMCA would translate to a charter school career.
Pioneers of Everest Value: Bobby Marquez Bobby Marquez brought the math (and more). Fresh from an education program at Loyola-Marymount and Teach For America training, Bobby was recruited ten years ago to Downtown Value School by then-principal Gerry Jacoby.
