Progress report

School administrator Neil Phillips isn't easily satisfied, so even with some early successes at Visible Men Academy, a Bradenton charter school he co-founded, he still seeks more.

The school, for boys in kindergarten through second grade, opened in August in Bradenton with 65 students. There are two kindergarten classes, one first-grade class and two second-grade classes. The first four months have been a lot of learning — both for Phillips and the staff, and the students.

“We feel like we have gotten off to a great start,” Phillips says. “But when you start anything, especially a school, there is so much you want to get right.”