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Support for Adult Organizing
Goal
The Institute aims to support urban communities in their struggle for school improvement. We believe that urban public schools fail when communities are disenfranchised and economically and socially marginalized. We therefore help strengthen the power, leadership, and vision of neighborhood-based institutions to hold all levels of school systems accountable for educating students well.
What We Do
The Institute provides policy research, educational data analysis, training, facilitation, coordination, support for strategy development, and logistical support for parent and community groups in New York City to help them develop neighborhood-based collaboratives with sufficient power to improve the quality of education in low-performing school districts.
Institute staff provide coordination and support for a citywide coalition, the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ), which consists of three parent- and community-led collaboratives. Each collaborative unites public school parents, unions, and community residents across a cluster of neighborhoods to work for improved educational outcomes. Institute staff also provide coordination and support for the three collaboratives that make up CEJ: the Community Collaborative to Improve Bronx Schools (formerly the Community Collaborative to Improve District 9 Schools), the Brooklyn Education Collaborative, and the Brooklyn-Queens 4 Education Collaborative.
Partners & Funders
Contact Person
Eric Zachary
Principal Associate, Community Involvement Program
Eric_Zachary@brown.edu
Support for Adult Organizing
Goal
The Institute aims to support urban communities in their struggle for school improvement. We believe that urban public schools fail when communities are disenfranchised and economically and socially marginalized. We therefore help strengthen the power, leadership, and vision of neighborhood-based institutions to hold all levels of school systems accountable for educating students well.
What We Do
The Institute provides policy research, educational data analysis, training, facilitation, coordination, support for strategy development, and logistical support for parent and community groups in New York City to help them develop neighborhood-based collaboratives with sufficient power to improve the quality of education in low-performing school districts.
Institute staff provide coordination and support for a citywide coalition, the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ), which consists of three parent- and community-led collaboratives. Each collaborative unites public school parents, unions, and community residents across a cluster of neighborhoods to work for improved educational outcomes. Institute staff also provide coordination and support for the three collaboratives that make up CEJ: the Community Collaborative to Improve Bronx Schools (formerly the Community Collaborative to Improve District 9 Schools), the Brooklyn Education Collaborative, and the Brooklyn-Queens 4 Education Collaborative.
Partners & Funders
- NYC Coalition for Educational Justice
- Donors' Education Collaborative
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Hazen Foundation
- New York Community Trust
- New York Foundation
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Contact Person
Eric Zachary
Principal Associate, Community Involvement Program
Eric_Zachary@brown.edu
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