Five schools selected as Year-two PSS grantees
January 2007
Five schools have been selected as year-two recipients of the Partners for Student Success grant, a multi-year initiative that aims to improve the alignment of resources and support for struggling students during the school day and through out-of-school time programs.
The long-term goal of PSS is improved academic and developmental outcomes for children targeted by this effort.
The Partners for Student Success grant is a way for schools identified for improvement under the No Child Left Behind Act to strengthen coordination of traditional school-day efforts with after-school programming, tutoring, family outreach, mental health services and enrichment activities for higher student academic achievement.
The five year-two schools are: Louis Agassiz Elementary School (Jamaica Plain), Emily A. Fifield Elementary School (Dorchester), Joseph J. Hurley Elementary School (Boston), Charles Sumner Elementary School (Roslindale), Young Achievers School for Science and Math K-8 (Jamaica Plain). Each school will receive $350,000 over three years. These schools join five year-one schools already participating in the Partners for Student Success program: Chittick Elementary School (Mattapan), James Condon Elementary School (South Boston), John Marshall Elementary School (Dorchester), Maurice J. Tobin K-8 School (Roxbury) and John Winthrop Elementary School (Dorchester).
Partners for Student Success was developed by a working group led by Mayor Thomas M. Menino and comprised of representatives from the Boston Public Schools, Boston After School & Beyond, Massachusetts 2020, Barr Foundation, Full-Service Schools Roundtable, Harvard University, PEAR, Nellie Mae Education Foundation, and The Boston Foundation. It is the first major initiative to be launched by Boston After School & Beyond (www.bostonbeyond.org), a public-private partnership formed in 2004 to be the permanent successor to the Mayor’s 2:00-to-6:00 After-School Initiative and Boston’s After-School for All Partnership.
Partners for Student Success will work with the schools over a period of three years providing financial assistance for staff and programming, as well as technical assistance. Specifically, these grants will provide support for schools to hire a staff person who can oversee the integration and coordination of in-school curricula and out-of-school time programming for children. The five schools will also receive support for the expansion of out-of-school time programs to serve more students who are struggling academically and to connect this programming with existing Supplemental Education Services (SES) tutoring.
The initiative is funded by Boston After School & Beyond and its funding partners, The Boston Foundation, the Wallace Foundation, Ludcke Foundation and Nellie Mae Education Foundation.