Biography & Early Wealth Journey

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RISE stands for Revolutionary Individualized Student Experience and it is the brainchild of Los Angeles teachers Kari Croft and Eric Whalen. The two were awarded $10 million by Laurene Powell Jobs for winning the XQ: The Super School Project. There will be nine other winners who will each receive $10 million from Powell Jobs. The money will be distributed over five years.

RISE will be a completely new model of high school that utilizes three to four physical sites, an online learning system, and a bus that will be turned into a mobile resource center to bring Wi-Fi, a washing machine and dryer, and homework help to the most at risk and needy students.

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By using several sites, the internet, and the mobile resource center students who suddenly move or can't get to school will have a number of options to get the day's lesson, homework, or tutoring. Currently. The plan is to open RISE with a small group of students in the fall of 2017 and expand from there with a goal of 500 to 550 students over time.