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Excel Academy of Englewood (Chicago) student Raynard Gillispie exemplifies what it means to overcome hurdles. It wasn’t very long ago that this straight-A 19 year old student was shot four times, [...]

An alumnus of Bowling Green State University, Cassandra Miller is in her third year as an English teacher at Excel South in Philadelphia. After her time student teaching in suburban school [...]

A group of vulnerable high school students, most of whom have never been outside the city of Pensacola in their young lifetimes completed a trip to Atlanta last weekend that they won’t soon forget – [...]

Excel South culinary arts teacher Raul Rivera grew up in Northeast Philadelphia and received his degree at the Pennsylvania Culinary Institute-Le Cordon Bleu Program in Pittsburgh.  He has been [...]