Agassi funds 69th school, plans to open 100 more by 2020
Eight-time Grand Slam champion, Andre Agassi recently inaugurated the Rocketship Rise Academy in southeast Washington, which is the 69th school funded by Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund. Agassi launched the fund in 2011 with real estate investor Bobby Turner and has planned to open 100 more schools in the US by 2020 to meet the educational needs of 55,000 children.