Street School Earns 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator

Street School’s strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency have earned its fifth consecutive 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator. Only 12 percent of charities evaluated by Charity Navigator have received at least five consecutive 4-star evaluations, indicating that Street School outperforms most other charities in America. 
Since 2002, using objective analysis, Charity Navigator has awarded only the most fiscally responsible organizations a 4-star rating. In 2011, it added 17 metrics, focused on governance and ethical practices as well as measures of openness, to its ratings methodology.  These Accountability & Transparency metrics, which account for 50 percent of a charity’s overall rating, reveal which charities operate in accordance with industry best practices and whether they are open with their donors and stakeholders.  On June 1, 2016, we upgraded our methodology for rating each charity’s’ financial health with CN 2.1. These enhancements further substantiates the financial health of our four-star charities. 
“Street School’s exceptional 4-star rating sets it apart from its peers and demonstrates its trustworthiness to the public,” according to Michael Thatcher, president and CEO of Charity Navigator. “Only a quarter of charities rated by Charity Navigator receive the distinction of our 4-star rating. This adds Street School to a preeminent group of charities working to overcome our world’s most pressing challenges. Based on its 4-star rating, people can trust that their donations are going to a financially responsible and ethical charity when they decide to support Street School.” 
“It’s important our donors trust that we’re using their donations wisely to create an award-winning alternative high school for students who may be at risk of dropping out. We are transforming lives at Street School and Tulsa is a better community because of it,” said Street School Board President, Dan Simoni.  “Our 4-star Charity Navigator rating demonstrates to our supporters our good governance and financial accountability.”
Street School’s rating and other information about charitable giving are available free of charge on www.charitynavigator.org.   More-detailed information about Street School’s rating is available to Charity Navigator site visitors who become registered users, another free service.
 
About Charity Navigator 
Charity Navigator, www.charitynavigator.org, is the largest charity evaluator in America and its website attracts more visitors than all other charity rating groups combined. The organization helps guide intelligent giving by evaluating the Financial Health and Accountability and Transparency of more than 8,000 charities. Charity Navigator accepts no advertising or donations from the organizations it evaluates, ensuring unbiased evaluations, nor does it charge the public for this trusted data. As a result, Charity Navigator, a 501 (c) (3) public charity itself, depends on support from individuals, corporations and foundations that believe it provides a much-needed service to America’s charitable givers. Charity Navigator, can be reached directly at (201) 818-1288, or by mail at 139 Harristown Road, Suite 101, Glen Rock, N.J., 07452.
 
 About Street School
Street School is an alternative high school with a therapeutic counseling program that has been in Tulsa since 1973.  The school creates a supportive community for students in grades 9 through 12 who have chosen to work toward graduating from high school in a non-traditional setting. Street School is a dropout prevention, intervention and recovery program accredited by Tulsa Public Schools. Students choose to attend the school because they are committed to graduating, to learning and practicing life skills, to resolving substance abuse problems, to dealing with behavioral issues and to filling the void of support traditionally provided by family.