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Program: Public Education Grants Year: 2001
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Program: Public Education Grants
For Year: 2001
BROOKLYN ACORN
Arkansas Institute for Social Justice
(718) 246-7900
88 Third Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11217
Jon Kest
(718) 246-7900
Size: $90,000 2/yr
2001
Public Education Grants
Last year, Brooklyn ACORN began a campaign to push for improvement of ten low performing schools in the East New York, Bushwick and Flatbush communities. Three of these schools were targeted by the Board of Education for privatization earlier this year. ACORN organized and mobilized parents and succeeded in preventing the takeover of these schools by Edison Schools, a for-profit corporation. With a grant of $90,000 over two years, Brooklyn ACORN will organize parents and local residents at 10 schools including these 3, to push for an agenda that includes the retention of qualified teachers, the professional development of school principals, the implementation of appropriate and consistent curricula and the engagement of parents in school decision-making.
CENTRAL BROOKLYN CHURCHES (CBC)
(718) 302-9840
140 DeVoe Street
Brooklun, New York 11211
LeRoi Gill Executive Director
lgill.CBChurches@verizon.net
(718) 302-9840
Size: $60,000 2/yr
2001
Public Education Grants
In 1999, CBC launched the Bed-Stuy Parents Union to organize parents of students in District 16, one of New York City's lowest performing school districts. To date, active chapters of the Parents Union have been established in two elementary schools, P.S. 40 and P.S. 309. The parents have waged successful campaigns around health, safety and security issues in these two schools. A renewal grant of $60,000 over two years will enable CBC to create chapters of the Parents Union in other elementary schools in the district.
CHICAGO SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COOPERATIVE
312-499-4800
111 N. Wabash Avenue, Ste. 1205
Chicago, Illinois 60602
Andrew Wade Executive Director
esarpy@leadercoop.org
312-499-4800
Size: $90,000 2/yr
2001
Public Education Grants
Founded in 1998 by a coalition of community based organizations in Chicago, The Chicago School Leadership Development Cooperative has played a significant role in efforts to organize and mobilize support for the Local School Councils in Chicago public schools and to train parents for participation in the work of the Councils. A grant of $90,000 over two years will support the Local School Council Capacity Initiative, an effort to establish a 35 member training network that will offer parents advanced training for effective service on Local School Councils.
