A Superintendent Celebrates: All 849 Seniors From My Schools Are Graduating — and 590 Are the First in Their Families to Enroll in College

JoAnn Gama is the co-founder, president, and superintendent of IDEA Public Schools, a family of 61 tuition-free public charter schools committed to seeing each child to and through college, serving 45,000 students in Texas — Austin, San Antonio, the Rio Grande Valley, and El Paso — and Southern Louisiana.