History

One Bright Ray, Incorporated currently operates two contracted schools in the city of Philadelphia. The organization’s founder and president, Joseph H.G. Proietta has over 40 years of educational, operational and financial knowledge and experience. He has a long-standing expertise, starting one of the first alternative schools in Philadelphia in 1980, The Community High School and opening the first charter school in Philadelphia in 1997 (the second in the Commonwealth), Community Academy of Philadelphia. Our founder and president is credited with opening one of the first accelerated high schools in Philadelphia in 2004, Fairhill Community High School.

Joseph H.G. Proietta remains active in the operation of the programs. While the organization has grown tremendously, Mr. Proietta continues to interact with students daily, even teaching an Advanced Placement History course to seniors at the Community Academy of Philadelphia Charter School. Joseph Proietta has built a stellar central administrative team comprised of Anna Duvivier, MS who is the Chief Executive Officer of One Bright Ray and alumna of The Community High School. Marcus A. Delgado, MED, Deputy Chief Executive Officers who has a plethora of knowledge, experience, and professional relationship. Tiffany J. Manners, MBA, Executive Director of Business Affairs, and John Proietta, BA, Chief Operating Officer; this team coupled with several other administrative leaders, work together to ensure that the OBR programs are run effectively.

One Bright Ray, Incorporated has a team of senior administrators, five school principals, three vice principal, three dean of Students and over 200 additional employees that assist in managing the organizational effectiveness. Over the past 28 years, no OBR program has operated below budget nor encountered any legal issues surrounding financial misuse. The management of staff and facilities has allowed OBR to establish three successful schools and is now one of the top educational providers in the City of Philadelphia.

In the fall of 2007, OBR became an approved provider of Supplemental Education Services (SES). Students in schools identified for school improvement were eligible to apply for free tutoring in order to bridge gaps in their academic achievement. OBR offered after-school tutoring support in reading and math for grades 4-12 during 2007-2008. The SES program will continue and will offer research-based reading support to students in grades 4-12.

OBR has 28 years of experience. We have been and will continue to successfully educate at-risk, over-age and under-credited populations. OBR has flourished despite of the financial difficulties facing the School District of Philadelphia. Our five-year contract with SDOP has been restructured granting additional funding and enabling program improvements. Further, the Philadelphia School District granted OBR another contract to operate North Philadelphia Community High School, which supports an additional 100 underserved students.