About Us
Liberty Classical Schools exists to launch and support K-12 classical schools that emphasize virtuous living, traditional learning, and civic responsibility. The Mission of each Liberty school is to form knowledgeable, virtuous citizens.
Training the Mind, Strengthening the Heart
We believe that the highest approach of education is training the minds and strengthening the hearts of our nation’s children, and fostering in them the knowledge and virtue necessary for building happy lives full of meaning and purpose Liberty schools deliver a time-tested, classical liberal arts curriculum in a smaller, supportive environment where every child is known. Our goal is to launch and operate ten K-12 American classical schools in 10 years.
By 2033, Liberty aims to serve over 9,000 students and their families and graduate over 400 citizen leaders every year. These men and women will be shaped by the best in our moral and intellectual heritage and prepared to build happy lives full of meaning and purpose. They will be well qualified for future studies in law, medicine, business, engineering, technology, or any other professional or vocational pursuit.
A Classical Education for Modern Times
At Liberty schools, subject-matter experts deliver a rigorous liberal arts curriculum that includes phonics, grammar, literature, mathematics, science, history, and Latin. Starting in Kindergarten with age-old fables that teach moral lessons and finishing in high school with many of the Great Books, students also study economics, computer science, moral philosophy, and government. Students are taught to practice virtues like courage, humility, self-government, and service, to engage in respectful discourse, and to master the written word. In an environment where every child is known, students are encouraged to participate in activities that include athletics, fine arts, clubs, student government, and more.
Courage, Courtesy, Honesty, Humility, Perseverance, Self-Government, Service
Character pervades our curriculum. Students at Liberty partner schools acquire the virtues through “pillars of character”, the spirit behind the few simple but essential rules students learn and practice. They further study the virtues in the great stories, real and imaginary, that comprise the human pageant. In time, they read the philosophic truth of Socrates:
“For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: 'Wealth does not bring about virtue, but virtue makes wealth and everything else good for men.'"
Charter School Growth Fund
Outside of the government, CSGF is the largest funder of charter schools in the nation. The largest individual and institutional philanthropists make their investments in school choice via CSGF, trusting in their time-tested vetting process and their well-developed systems of support. This partnership will provide funding for our next three schools and is recognition that Liberty schools are among the highest-performing charter school networks in the country.
Barney Charter School Initiative
Liberty Classical Schools is a non-profit school support organization, and its leadership team includes experienced operators of Hillsdale College's Barney Charter School Initiative (BCSI) schools. BCSI is an outreach program of Hillsdale College devoted to the revitalization of public education through the launch and support of classical K-12 charter schools. As members of BCSI or licensees of its curriculum, Liberty schools offer families a time-tested liberal arts curriculum that teaches the fundamentals of reading, writing, literature, arithmetic, science, art, music, Latin, and a story-rich history curriculum. BSCI is neither faith-based nor partisan, and we exchange no monetary remuneration in association with the partnership.
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