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What You Know and Love with Youth After-School!
Citizen
Schools and Goldman Sachs Team Up Nationwide
Frank Ghali, Vice President of Investment Management at Goldman
Sachs in San Francisco, took up his wife's challenge by teaching
middle school students about finance and investing after school
last year. But the relationship between Citizen Schools and
Goldman Sachs began long before that. Go
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IN THIS
ISSUE |
Advocating
for Youth
Massachusetts
Lawmakers Commit to After-School Learning
Thanks in part to two tireless visionaries, Senator Edward
Augustus, Jr. (D, Worcester) and Representative John Quinn (D, New
Bedford), Citizen Schools will receive a matching grant from the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts to ensure the growth and sustainability
of Citizen Schools in Massachusetts. Go to
article
Learning
How to Learn
The
Debut of School Navigation
"Kids realized,
'Yes, I have the power to change my grade!'" Go
to article
A
Career After School
A
Professional Educator in Out-of-School Learning
Sharlene
Jeanty shows how many roles one person can play in young people's
lives. Go to article
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"Dever,
The First Ever"
12 Years of Educating Youth, Strengthening the Community
In the fall of 1994, Eric Schwarz
walked down the street from his South Boston home to the Paul A.
Dever Elementary School to pitch an idea that would ultimately change
the lives of thousands of students. Go to
article
Our
First 8th Graders Graduate High School
Citizen
Schools Alumni Hit Milestone of Success Go
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WE
ARE GROWING.
And we
are growing in quality.
Amid the continuing drumbeat of educational challenges facing the
country (see this TIME cover story called Dropout
Nation), Citizen Schools offers hope. Our unique model of after-school
apprenticeship learning has built a continuing track record of real
results, going on 12 years.
The stories you'll read in this newsletter make our program come
alive. But we don't rely on anecdotal evidence -- we're measuring
our results internally and through the independent analysis of Policy
Studies Associates. As our program gets stronger, we're extending
it into more communities. New Citizen Schools campuses are launching
next month in Campbell and East Palo Alto, California; Boston, Massachusetts;
Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey; Charlotte, North Carolina;
and Austin and Houston, Texas. With each new city and new school,
Citizen Schools gains the inspiration of hundreds more volunteers,
educators, and supporters -- and, of course, amazing young people
discovering their potential.
Policymakers are taking note. In Massachusetts this fall, ten public
schools will pioneer an Expanded Learning Time program, in which
all students receive 30% more learning time. Non-profit education
organizations, including Citizen Schools, are working with the schools
to deliver programming that makes the most of this opportunity.
We thank those of you who have worked so tirelessly to make this
growth a reality. We invite those of you new to our family to read
more about our vision for reimagining after-school learning. And
we look forward to our next growth spurt.
Eric Schwarz & Ned Rimer
Co-founders
Citizen Schools
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