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Program: Public Education Grants Year: 2001
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Program: Public Education Grants
For Year: 2001
INSTITUTE OF POPULAR EDUCATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (IDEPSCA)
213-252-2952
1565 W. 14th Street
Los Angeles, California 90015
Raúl Añorve Executive Director
ranorve@idepsca.org
213-252-2952
http://www.idepsca.org
Size: $40,000
2001
Public Education Grants
Founded in 1991, the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California, is an organization of Chicano and Latino activists in Los Angeles, West Los Angeles and Pasadena. A grant of $40,000 will be used to support IDEPSCA's Associación de Padres para la Educación (APE), an emerging coalition of Latino and immigrant parents with children in the Pasadena Unified School District. The 30 parents and 7 high school students that comprise the core membership of APE have identified priority areas for their activism. These include equitable distribution of qualified teachers and other resources, audit and reform of the District's disciplinary practices, increasing the number of Advanced Placement and college track courses available in schools serving predominantly Latino, African American and economically disadvantaged students.
INTERCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
210-444-1710 ext.507
5835 Callaghan Road, Suite 350
San Antonio, Texas 78228
Dr. Maria Robledo Montecel Executive Director
210-444-1710 ext.507
http://www.idra.org
Size: $140,000 2/yr
2001
Public Education Grants
The El Paso County student population is 155,000, 84.9% of whom are Hispanic, 71.6% are economically disadvantaged and 32.1% are limited English proficient. Inequities in educational outcomes for Hispanic students are evidenced by disparities in the Latino high school completion rates ranging from as high as 70% in the Ysleta Independent School District to as low as 17% in San Elizaro. The potential for publicly-funded vouchers to drain resources from public schools looms throughout the state. With a two-year grant of $140,000, the Intercultural Development Research Association will partner with five community-based organizations to train parent leaders to organize for school reform within targeted El Paso communities.
LA METRO
South Central Inter-religious Sponsoring Committee
213-273-8420
1545 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 328
Los Angeles, California 90017
Ernesto Cortés Executive Director
213-273-8420
Size: $50,000
2001
Public Education Grants
The LA Metro Education Strategy is an initiative of LA METRO, an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation. Through the project, LA METRO will organize a network of schools to implement strategies that have a direct impact on students in the classroom. Our $50,000 grant will enable LA Metro to organize teams of parents, teachers, administrative and support staff in 25 public schools. These teams will conduct school-based and district wide school improvement campaigns around such issues as accessibility of after school programs, siting of new school facilities and parity in teacher pay in relation to the surrounding suburbs.
