Latino Educational Equity Partnerships
Project Title
As a one-time only grant for the development of Latino Educational Equity Partnership's first strategic business plan, with a particular focus on market and landscape analysis
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Industrial school models are failing to prepare students across the country with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for success in 21st century college and career. This shortcoming is especially pronounced amongst those students and communities who have historically been ill-served by the public education system: students with special needs, English language learners, and low-income populations. Today, one in four US children are Hispanic, and seventy percent of Latino children come from homes where Spanish is spoken. These students require school options that prepare them for college and career within a cultural and linguistic context befitting of their strengths and needs. Latino Educational Equity Partnerships (LEEP) is a new non-profit that seeks to create and grow schools of higher achievement in underserved communities that are designed specifically around how Latino students learn best. With Corporation support, LEEP will partner with Bellwether Education Partners to develop their first strategic business plan, which will include a market and landscape analysis of schools and organizations responding to similar problems.