David Hardy, the founder of Boys’ Latin Charter School in Philadelphia and a prominent school-choice advocate, has been named interim president of Girard College.leading the historic boarding school in Fairmount, which serves about 300 students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds in first through twelfth grades.
Hardy, currently a senior fellow at the Commonwealth Foundation, a conservative Harrisburg think tank that promotes school choice, will take over at Girard April 25. “Under Mr. Hardy’s leadership, we will continue to move Girard forward, reaffirming its connection to the community, and maximizing opportunities for our students to be successful,” Bernard Smalley, president of the Board of Directors of City Trusts, and Lynette Brown-Sow, chair of the Girard College Committee, said in a statement Wednesday.retiring as CEO at Boys’ Latin
, a West Philadelphia school that is Pennsylvania’s only single-gender charter, Hardy has advocated on behalf of charters and the school-choice movement. Hardy serves on the board of the national Center for Education Reform, the Pennsylvania Coalition for Public Charter Schools, the Independence Mission Schools — a network of Catholic schools in Philadelphia — and Ad Prima Charter School, with campuses in Overbrook and Mount Airy.
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