Achievement Gap In Education: A Case Study

My social justice issue is lack of funding for inner-city charity/private schools and the achievement gap in education. This issue was made very clear to me when I did my Anawim project at St. Anthony Year Around School, an organization that provides income household children in impoverished neighborhoods with the opportunity to attain a higher level learning through year around schooling accompanied with summer, spring, and winter academic programs. Additionally, I’ve personally seen my prior classmates, who have attended high poverty and low-performing schools, struggle through their entire high school experience to achieve passing grades. This is a direct result of lack of funding to properly educate my classmates, many have/will suffer

This solution works by bridge the achievement and gap between low-income middle school students’ by offering free summer learning programs. In the next five years they hope to accomplish three priorities: growing & strengthening their summer programs, investing in teacher and educational leaders, and launching strategic partnerships. To elaborate on each priority, each serves as purpose to help the innovation of the summer programs. For example the growing and strengthening of the summer programs will allow for new campuses and will serve 6,000 low-income students. Investing in teacher and educational leaders will allow them to hire and train over 100 educators and provide them with the resource needed to support and inspire their students’. Lastly, launching a strategic partnership will allow the placement of 2,500 Aim high students and graduate of the program to propel them through high school and college. Thirteen percent of Aim High – Reach For A Dream Government tax or assistance, eight percent comes from corporations like Wal-Mart and Target, twenty-five percent comes from individuals or donators, fifty-one percent from foundation like Fletcher Bay Foundation, and four percent come for other sort of income. They is also an Aim High Family Fund, in which family could help support the program each dollar is raised goes

It has been called “One of the most ambitious social-policy experiments of our time” by The New York Tines. The Harlem Children Zone has taken great approaches in rebuilding itself community ensure that the next generation does not any problems. The proponent of this solution are our own President Barack Obama and formal President Bill Clinton, who both contribute to political awareness and Oprah Winfrey who contributes donations and publicity. They tend to look mainly at 2015 statistics like the ninety-three percent college acceptance rate and the ninety-nine percent Pre-K