Sentences with phrase «student from underserved communities»

The group helps prepare low - income students from underserved communities for college, providing rigorous academic training and extracurricular activities.

You never stop learning and you're part of a national network that's leading the charge in getting students from underserved communities to and through college.

Thirty - three percent of the earliest cohorts of KIPP middle - school students were found to have graduated college within six years, four times the average rate of students from underserved communities and slightly higher than the figure (31 percent) for all U.S. students.

«I am fully committed to continuing our work at KIPP to put more students from underserved communities in the US on the path to and through college.»

The mission of IDEA Public Schools mission of IDEA Public Schools is to prepare students from underserved communities for success in college and citizenship.

Founded in October 2010 within the California State University (CSU) system, the Asian American and Pacific Islander Initiative is a concerted effort to improve college access, retention, and graduation rates for AAPI students from underserved communities.

The mission of KIPP Delta Public Schools is to create and support schools that empower students from underserved communities to develop the knowledge, skills, and character traits necessary to pursue a college education and a life of value, joy, and integrity.

He helped promising students from underserved communities get a college education, started what would become a nationwide prison art program and worked on an art project with children affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Ed's pro bono work included serving as co-coordinator of Legal Outreach, a week - long intensive academic program that helps high school students from underserved communities.

Be driven to improve the minds and lives of students from underserved communities; dedicated to doing whatever it takes to help all students achieve academic success

Her Sheila Johnson Fellowship has paid for more than 40 students from underserved communities to attend the Harvard Kennedy School; her goal is to eventually fund 50.

is the Site Coordinator for the Holistic Me after school program at Robert W. Coleman Elementary where he and his staff mentor and support over 150 students from underserved communities, teaching them mindfulness and coping techniques to deal with stress and trauma.

Adam Candelaria is the Site Coordinator for the Holistic Me after school program at Robert W. Coleman Elementary where he and his staff mentor and support over 150 students from underserved communities, teaching them mindfulness and coping techniques to deal with stress and trauma.

KIPP Austin's tuition - free schools educate more than 5,000 students from underserved communities.

If we hold low expectations, especially for students from underserved communities, we deny those students access to the education they deserve.

Introduction The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter management organization is committed to providing a rigorous college - preparatory education to students from underserved communities.

Under guidance from teaching artists, students from underserved communities will receive instruction in painting, drawing, art history, art criticism, and aesthetic conceptualization.

A $ 20,000 grant to the Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation will support expansion of TWIGS (To Work In Gaining Skills), a free multidisciplinary arts education program for students from underserved communities

Elsewhere across the country there are various other programs including those that encourage the entry of students from underserved communities to law school, that provide locum coverage to lawyers in small communities and that provide succession planning assistance to lawyers preparing for their retirement.