> Queens Paideia Announces $150,000 Scholarship Program
> Long Island City, NY, December 4, 2013 Queens Paideia School, known for its 6:1 student-teacher ratio and fully individualized education that emphasizes strong academics, thinking skills, and self-management skills, announces a Merit Scholarship program worth a total of $150,000. Students 13 and up are eligible to apply for the 2014-15/16 school year. The school is holding an open house on the morning of December 18 for interested candidates and their parents/guardians.
> Dr. Francis Mechner, director of QPS and president of the Mechner Foundation, founded the school “to provide the best possible–and most complete–education for children and to demonstrate the amazing results that an individualized education can deliver. We are funding the scholarship program to add seven promising students to our secondary school.” Selected applicants will be interviewed and evaluated on their abilities and personal qualities.
> Queens Paideia School is an independent K-12 school located in Long Island City. Its highly regarded team of educators focuses detailed attention on every student. “We spotlight every student’s unique potentials and talents,” explains Mechner, “preparing them for college but also for a successful, fulfilling life.” Adds Dr. Tim Fredrick, QPS’s ELA instructor: “Our students learn to be critical thinkers and to ask questions of the world and themselves. That is what makes them stand out.”
> Three $30,000 scholarships will cover the 2014-16 school years, and four $15,000 scholarships will cover the 2014-15 school year. To
> The Mechner Foundation has been supporting educational, scientific, and cultural activities since 1996. Further information and the application form can be found at http://queenspaideiaschool.org/process/. For questions, and to attend the December 18 open house, please email [email protected].
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2013Brochure.pdf