Charlestown High School educator wins $100,000 prize for his school

Sunny Pai, director of Diploma Plus at Charlestown High School, this week won the Nellie Mae Education Foundation’s Lawrence W. O’Toole Award - which means a $100,000 grant to the school.

Diploma Plus is a program for students who have had trouble in more traditional educational settings. BPS officials had originally planned to cut the program for the coming school year to save money, but Liberty Mutual stepped in with a grant to keep the program going.