LP GO! Scholarship Program Drives Students and Excellence

There's a brand-new way for businesses, foundations, and individuals to support access to the world-class arts education at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School.

The LP GO! Scholarship Program allows supporters to help fund rising transportation costs for Lincoln Park, which transports students from nearly 90 different school districts to its Beaver County location.

Lincoln Park transports more than 70 percent of its student body, grades 7 through 12, to and from school daily, through private school bus transportation. From the beginning, the school has funded this transportation—something that no other charter school in the state provides--completely on its own.

However, transportation costs have exploded over the past five years, jeopardizing LP’s ability to offer a world-class arts education to students who deserve it. Students in the school's eight different arts majors--dance, fine art and design, film and broadcast journalism, health science and the arts, music, pre-law and the arts, theatre, and writing and publishing--will all benefit from this new scholarship initiative.

The establishment of the new LP GO! Scholarship program is an effort to ensure that all students retain access to this life-changing education.

"We've never received a dime of public funding for the comprehensive transportation services we provide to our students and families," says Dan LeRoy, Lincoln Park's Acting Chief School Administrator.

"That is obviously an injustice," he adds. "But instead of complaining about it, we're going to take our case to the public, and to our partners in the private sector, and ask for their help for deserving LP students."

The LP Go! Scholarship Program offers tiered contributions for as little as $250, and benefits like free tickets to shows and athletic events, as well as recognition in playbills and on campus. Every cent of each donation will go to pay for student transportation costs for deserving students like Christian Mosley, a junior music major from Bridgeville.

Mosley, who rides the bus roughly three hours a day, has been a student at LP since he was a seventh grader. That's a lot of hours back and forth on buses, but Moseley says it's "definitely" been worth it.

"I enjoy the friends I've made here, and how much I've improved, says Mosley, whose sister also attended Lincoln Park. "I wanted to get away from my old school, because they were really holding me back in music."

LP junior music major Christian Mosely of Bridgeville says that without the transportation LP provides, he wouldn't be able to take advantage of the school's world-class arts education.

Mosley adds that LP's hub system for busing allows students different options for pickup and dropoff, "which is really nice."

Junior Sam Goodge of New Wilmington has a lot in common with Mosley. He's a fellow music major who came to LP as a middle schooler, and his twin sister also attends LP. And he has about the same three-hour commute daily to get his arts education--which he agrees is worth the trip.

"We have really great teachers, and here we get private lessons," says Goodge, a percussionist. "I've definitely gotten a lot better."

If you'd like to donate to the LP Go! Scholarship program and help a Lincoln Park student get the arts education worth traveling for, then all you have to do is click this link!