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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "New Technology High School is a secondary school located in Napa, California.The school was founded in 1997 as a joint project of the Napa Valley Unified School District and the business community of the Napa Valley. Vincent “Buzz” Butler of Lake Street Ventures, the developer of the Napa Junction Center in American Canyon, played a pivotal role in founding New Tech High, and by extension, the development of the new teaching method. “If I had to pick one man as the father of SC21, it would be Buzz Butler,” said Napa County Office of Education Superintendent Barbara Nemko. Nemko became the director of the business and education collaboration committee shortly after her arrival in Napa in 1991. New Tech High School was an outgrowth of that committee. “Business people were unhappy with the quality of workers they were getting. The average schools weren’t producing graduates with skills needed in the workplace,” said Butler. “So I thought, ‘why can’t we grow our own employees? Why not teach these kids what these companies want?’”That simple question led to a one-of-a-kind business-education partnership. Butler said the idea for an education-business collaboration came from his internship in his senior year at UC Berkeley with a professor who typically acted as a matchmaker between students and businesses.To their credit, Butler said, local educators and administrators were open to the possibilities.“There may be 42 SC21-type schools around the country, but we are the first to take it district-wide,” said Nemko."@en }

• New_Technology_High_School abstract "New Technology High School is a secondary school located in Napa, California.The school was founded in 1997 as a joint project of the Napa Valley Unified School District and the business community of the Napa Valley. Vincent “Buzz” Butler of Lake Street Ventures, the developer of the Napa Junction Center in American Canyon, played a pivotal role in founding New Tech High, and by extension, the development of the new teaching method. “If I had to pick one man as the father of SC21, it would be Buzz Butler,” said Napa County Office of Education Superintendent Barbara Nemko. Nemko became the director of the business and education collaboration committee shortly after her arrival in Napa in 1991. New Tech High School was an outgrowth of that committee. “Business people were unhappy with the quality of workers they were getting. The average schools weren’t producing graduates with skills needed in the workplace,” said Butler. “So I thought, ‘why can’t we grow our own employees? Why not teach these kids what these companies want?’”That simple question led to a one-of-a-kind business-education partnership. Butler said the idea for an education-business collaboration came from his internship in his senior year at UC Berkeley with a professor who typically acted as a matchmaker between students and businesses.To their credit, Butler said, local educators and administrators were open to the possibilities.“There may be 42 SC21-type schools around the country, but we are the first to take it district-wide,” said Nemko.".