Otherwise, they risk jeopardizing the education of the children entrusted in their care.įor the 2021-22 school year, Donda Academy launched its all-star Donda Doves basketball team alongside 21 students from kindergarten through eighth grade, according to the California Department of Education.
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With plans for nationwide schools and a college, Donda Academy will serve as the trial run if West and his team can pull off forming a successful celebrity-backed academic institution. This man always wanted to create a school in his mama’s name.… Look at what we’re doing with the choir and the fashion in school - I don’t think there’s a venture capitalist or anybody that’s had a vision this clear on what education can look like for you.” “I think people don’t understand the gravity of that. “I want to be emphatic that there’s never been a time that Kanye West did not want to do this,” he says. It’s part of West’s longtime vision, with Yusef saying the rapper’s five-year plan is to have several campuses across the country. Malik Yusef, a producer and longtime collaborator of West’s who says he helped shape the school’s concept, tells Rolling Stone that West is serious about Donda Academy, and the school is by no means being done on a whim.
(Campbell did not reply to an interview request.) The 28-year-old only enrolled in a master’s degree program in education at Pepperdine University in January and should complete it by next August. According to her résumé, Campbell’s closest brush with a teaching position appears to be running her own piano-, guitar-, and singing-tutoring business headquartered from her apartment. But Rolling Stone has learned that Campbell has never held a formal position as an educator. The ostensible head of the school listed on its website is principal and executive director Brianne Campbell, who also leads the school’s choir program. Even attempts by Simi Valley’s local newspaper noted in a June article that it could not reach anyone. Many of those associated with the school balked at interview requests, as did parents whose children attend the school. A representative for West also did not respond to requests for comment. Donda’s listed administrators and sporting program’s leadership did not respond to Rolling Stone’s multiple inquiries about the school. Exactly who attends and works at the school has been tricky to pin down. What’s more, the school is not yet accredited and was still looking to hire instructors shortly before the school year began.
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