Kudos

In an article about school turnarounds and dropout prevention in the The New York Times, they noticed “Westinghouse High a school of 1,700 students in downtown Brooklyn, is taking a page from Japanese management techniques to improve student achievement…Supporters see it helping a generation of schoolchildren learn to think for themselves and work together-skills that economists say will be vital for successful workers…The process has led to a dramatic fall in the dropout rate from 12.9 percent to 2.1 percent…

When referring to the success story of George Westinghouse High School, Business Week said “Although more than half the school’s students come from single-parent families with incomes below the poverty line, parental involvement in the PTA has grown from 12 members…to 211.”

When evaluating Franklin on his work done at George Westinghouse High School, Fortune Magazine said “A prime contender (for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in Education) may be George Westinghouse Vocational & Technical High School in Brooklyn, New York…Franklin Schargel, the school’s quality coordinator, can point to real results…The school’s success attracted Japanese manufacturer Ricoh, which has specially equipped a classroom where students learn how to repair fax machines circuit boards while earning money for doing so.”