Author: Visceral Dev Admin

Cambridge, MA – The Schott Foundation is proud to announce the awardees of its Girls Equity grant program. These grants, targeted at local and state organizations in both New York and Massachusetts, will support efforts to ensure that female students of color have a fair and substantive opportunity to learn.

In the past eight years, Schott has engaged in a significant body of work on the crisis facing Black males. With these grants, Schott will complement that work and continue strengthening its gender equity efforts which it began more than a decade ago.

Right Destination, Wrong Vehicle Make no mistake, President Barack Obama understands the critically important link between quality education and a strong future for our country. The President’s State of the Union address placed education as a cornerstone of sustaining and growing our country’s democracy and economy. The President used the address as an opportunity to … Continued

Schott Foundation Releases Fourth State-by-State Data Set Showing an Overwhelming Majority of U.S. School Districts and States Are Failing to Provide the Resources Black Males Need to Close the National Racial Graduation Gap

Report Also Highlights Measures Needed to Address This National Crisis

NBC News and theGrio.com announced that they have chosen Dr. John H. Jackson, President of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, as one of “theGrio’s 100: History Makers in the Making”.

On January 22, 2010, Mr. Miller became the Sr. Vice President of Operations of The Schott Foundation for Public Education.  In this role, Mr. Miller is the senior manager of the Foundation’s finance and investments, operations, human resources, and compliance functions.
 

The Schott Foundation is pleased to welcome Jabes Rojas as its new Development Manager charged with expanding Schott’s philanthropic partnerships nationally, particularly within the corporate community.  Jabes’ experience and expertise in philanthropy are a great addition to the Schott team and will increase and diversify the partnerships in our collaborative endeavors to develop and strengthen a broad-based and representative movement to achieve fully resourced, high quality preK-12 public education and to provide all students an opportunity to learn.

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NATION’S EDUCATION FUNDERS AND LEADERS TO GATHER IN WASHINGTON
TO FOCUS ON NATIONAL OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN MOVEMENT

Annual OTL Summit to Focus on Specific Solution to Close Opportunity Gap

Dr. John H. Jackson will receive the 2009 Chairman’s Award for Education from 100 Black Men of America, during their 23rd Annual Conference on Friday, June 12th, at the Hilton New York. This award is being bestowed upon Dr. Jackson in recognition of his commitment to the uplift and empowerment of youth across the nation.

Other notables that have received this distinguished award include:

Dr. Yvonne Sanders Butler
Founder of Healthy Kids, Smart Kids and
Principal of Brown Mill Elementary and Magnet School

Schott Foundation Index Finds only Eight of 50 States Providing Disadvantaged Students Equitable Access to Even Moderately Proficient Public Education Systems 

Victory in Unity: Realizing the Dream Deferred

The Harvard Kennedy School’s 5th Annual Black Policy Conference

JFK School of Government
April 17-18th, 2009
Cambridge, MA.