Selfless Leader, Judy Hennessey

The National Conference for Community and Justice of Greater Dayton honored Dayton Early College Academy principal Judy Hennessey on Oct. 26 with a 2009 Humanitarian Award for her commitment to "the promise that education offers every American — a level playing field." Video courtesy of WDTN-TV.

Despite a school poverty rate of 97.3 percent, all 105 of DECA's graduates have been accepted to college. The University of Dayton founded DECA in 2003 in partnership with Dayton Public Schools as Ohio's first early college high school focused on helping low-income, minority and first-generation college-going students. DECA reorganized in 2007 as a charter school operated by the University of Dayton — the nation's only charter school operated by a Catholic university.

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