Shawn Hardnett's father didn't acknowledge his paternity until Hardnett was in his 20s. Today, Hardnett, a longtime teacher and school administrator, thinks fatherlessness is "the greatest ...

One of the school’s founders, Shawn Hardnett, started as a teacher but spent the last decade training dozens of principals in D.C. “Boys in Washington, D.C., in our nation’s capital ...

The principal, Shawn Hardnett, chose a Frederick Douglass quote as the school motto: "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." But at 11, Deonté didn't have much ...

Polaris school director Shawn Hardnett can attest to that. He witnessed fights just about every day after his campus opened in 2007. “They certainly were never bad kids, they just struggled with ...

"Some of our young men are probably in homes that are less easy to be in all day,” Founder, Shawn Hardnett said. Hardnett said when school was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic ...

As Statesmen College Preparatory Academy for Boys prepared to open in Southeast D.C. last week, Shawn Hardnett had little doubt the same young faces he saw online last year would walk through the ...

Shawn Hardnett had little doubt the same young faces he saw online last year would walk through the school’s doors. But Hardnett, who founded the charter school in 2018, knows that wasn't the ...