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Program: Public Education Grants Year: 2000
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Program: Public Education Grants
For Year: 2000
BLOCKS TOGETHER
(773) 276-2194
3507 W. North Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60647
Melissa Spatz Co-Director
btogether@aol.com
(773) 276-2194
Size: $60,000
2000
Public Education Grants
Since 1997, Blocks Together has been organizing parents and community residents as a way to increase parental involvement, alleviate overcrowding and improve the physical conditions of the public schools in the West Humboldt Park and North Garfield communities of Chicago. As a result of this work, the Chicago Public Schools will provide $1.2 million worth of repairs to a local school and will build two new schools to relieve overcrowding. Our two-year grant of $60,000 will help Blocks Together strengthen and expand its parent organizing efforts.
CENTRAL BROOKLYN CHURCHES (CBC)
(718) 302-9840
140 DeVoe Street
Brooklyn, New York 11211, New York
LeRoi L. Gill Executive Director
cbchurches@juno.com
(718) 302-9840
Size: $30,000
2000
Public Education Grants
CBC's Parent Organizing Project seeks to equip parents with the skills needed to address such issues as poor quality of instruction, school overcrowding, and unsafe conditions in the public schools in Bedford-Stuyvesant. CBC works with parents at three elementary schools: P.S. 56 in Community School District 13, and P.S. 5 and P.S. 309 in District 16-two of the lowest performing school districts in Brooklyn. CBC received a $30,000 grant to expand its organizing efforts to two additional schools, bring together parents from the targeted schools to work on district-wide issues, and to increase the number and effectiveness of parents serving on the School Leadership Teams at each school.
CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR A BETTER TUNICA COUNTY
(662) 363-6059
P.O.Box 2249, 1028 Prichard Road
Tunica, Mississippi 38676
Melvin Young Executive Director
(662) 363-6059
Size: $90,000
2000
Public Education Grants
Created in 1993, Concerned Citizens for a Better Tunica is a grassroots organization of parents and students that seeks to ensure that African American students in the Tunica public schools, who make up 99% of the district's student population, receive a quality education. Over the years, Concerned Citizens has won a number of victories including allocation of 12% of casino tax dollars toward the public schools and appropriation of $6.2 million to renovate, rehabilitate, modernize, and expand existing school facilities. - Most recently, with support from Hazen, the group was successful in ensuring the construction of a state-of-the-art public school close to the city of Tunica (where the majority of Black children live) instead of in an area near the casinos where no children yet live, as originally planned. Our renewal grant of $90,000 over two years will help Concerned Citizens in sustaining and strengthening its education organizing work.
