Todd Bock, who serves as the senior vice president for education services with Camelot, has been helping the private company operate school programs in some capacity with the Philadelphia School District since 2004, or for about six years now. Camelot, as a whole, has been in operation for more than 30 years. Camelot operates private schools for children between the ages of 5 and 21."We have a good public-private partnership with the School District of Philadelphia right now," Bock said.
In addition to accelerated school programs like the Northeast's Excel Academy North and South, Camelot has expanded its services into therapeutic schools and transitional schools.
Camelot operates therapeutic schools in Illinois, Tennessee and Virginia. The therapeutic schools provide therapy and academics for children and young adults with autism, learning disabilities, brain injuries, Asperger's Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, substance abuse, aggression and self harm.
The alternative schools like the Excel Academies include student-run organizations; remedial, special education and ESL programs; life skills training; computer instruction and counseling.
Other Camelot schools in Philadelphia include the Daniel Boone High School at 26th and Jefferson streets, the Fels Academy (which has a business academy as part of Samuel Fels High School at 901 Devereaux St.) and the Thomas P. Shallcross school at 3901 Woodhaven Rd.
Daniel Boone and Shallcross are transitional schools. Shallcross currently serves students in fifth grade through 12th grade.
"Transitional schools help students who may have been removed from their previous schools because of a violation of the student code of conduct," Bock said.
Jennifer Reardon and Maria Konidaris, Group 20, Northeast Philadelphia
*Photo of Milton Alexander, the executive director of Excel Academy South, and student Nick Rhodes.
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