GO Public Schools
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As a final project support of their college access toolkits and workshops for families and educators
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
12 months
Description
GO Public Schools engages families, educators, and diverse, student-centered partners to ensure that northern California’s low-income communities have access to equitable educational opportunities. Since its launch in 2009, GO Public Schools has built a track record of success in advocacy campaign work, community leadership, and family support. They work to address the persistent gaps in school systems that leave students underprepared for success in the rapidly evolving world, including post-secondary enrollment and persistence. With support from the Corporation, GO aims to enhance its College Early and Often program by: (1) increasing post-secondary access for families through tools for college planning and financial aid navigation, and (2) expanding resources to assist underserved and low-income families and educators in supporting students’ pursuit of post-secondary degrees while minimizing costs through informed financial aid choices.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
GO Public Schools engages families, educators, and diverse, student-centered partners to ensure that California’s historically marginalized communities have access to equitable educational opportunities. Since its launch fourteen years ago, GO Public Schools has built a track record of success in advocacy campaign work, community leadership, and family support. They work to address the persistent bias in school systems that leavestudents underprepared for success in the rapidly evolving world, including post-secondary enrollment and persistence. With support from the Corporation, GO will expand its efforts to: (1) make student performance and educational outcomes accessible to families and decision-makers by creating easy to digest education reports and metrics, (2) increase postsecondary access for families with tools to plan for college and to access financial aid, (3) solidify reforms that will help BIPOC families support their child’s success in pursuing post-secondary degrees and decrease costs.
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As an emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic for general support
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
8 months
Description
Over the past decade, GO Public Schools local networks of families, educators, and community allies in California have proven repeatedly that change is possible when the voices of those closest to our public schools are leading the conversation. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there have been a range of impacts both economically and personally, andthe immediate and long-term effects on students, families, and communities are immense. GO’s proximity to families, educators, and community allies has allowed them to quickly shift their focus from their ongoing advocacy campaign work in education to serve as a resource on pressing information, amplify critical messages and needs, and develop content for families and educators. At the same time, they are working to ensure the availability of a large suite of online tools and capabilities for their family advocates in the long run. Support from the Corporation will enable Go Public Schools toelevate parent voices to the state level, and in the national conversation about how best to ensure students are provided with the supports and attention they need to move forward.
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For support of a toolkit and the expansion of the family leadership model
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Achieving systems change in the American public education system requires community leadership as well as partnerships with families, educators, and community allies. Building a base of strong grassroots leadership however has often been overlooked in the movement toward educational equity and access. GO Public Schools is a nonprofit organization working with families and communities to expand access to quality education in historically underserved communities. GO Public Schools’ network spans three of California’s most historically underserved communities — Oakland, West Contra Costa, and Fresno — and impacts systems and schools that shape the lives of approximately 150,000 students. With support from the Corporation, GO Public Schools will build on its Advocacy Campaign Framework to create a paper and toolkit for use by community-led advocacy organizations nationwide. By disseminating the paper and toolkit to the field, GO Public Schools will thereby inform future campaigns for systems change.