Given Half A Chance: Black Males in Public Schools are Driven to Drop Out
50+ Years Post Brown v. Board of Education, Schott Foundation Report Reveals that States and Districts Fail to Educate the Majority of Male Black Students
Cambridge, MA, May 22, 2008 – MA Governor Deval Patrick recently announced the appointment of Lynson Beaulieu, The Schott Foundation’s Director of Programs and Strategic Leadership, to the state’s Board of Early Education and Care. Governor Patrick also announced the appointment of Orlando Isaza and Mary Pat Messmer to the Board.
Cambridge, MA, May 12, 2008 – The Schott Foundation for Public Education welcomes Johnette Ruffner-Ceaser to the staff as the new Development and Marketing Manager. Mrs. Ceaser joins The Schott Foundation from the NAACP, where she recently served as the National Director of Policy Training. Mrs.
Washington, DC, May 9, 2008 — Maria and Greg Jobin-Leeds were presented the Community Change Champion Award by the Center for Community Change at the organization’s annual gala in Washington, DC on May 5, 2008. Greg Jobin-Leeds is co-founder and Chair of The Schott Foundation for Public Education (Schott) and is co-founder and board director of the Access Strategies Fund(Access). Maria Jobin-Leeds is the Chairperson and founder of Access, and also serves on Schott’s board of directors.
Cambridge, MA, Nov. 27, 2007 — The Schott Foundation for Public Education announces the promotion of Dr. Cassie Schwerner to Vice President of Programs. Dr. Schwerner, who heads up Schott’s New York office, has worked for The Foundation for over ten years and most recently served as The Schott Foundation’s Director of Programs and Strategic Leadership.
New York, NY, October 3, 2007 – The Schott Foundation for Public Education solidifies $1 million partnership with The Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation as a part of an initiative which will develop models for recruiting and retaining African American male teachers. This first phase of the grant will be used to implement the Teachers as Leaders initiative — which will expand teacher and public policy leadership opportunities for black males entering the teaching profession.
Cambridge, MA, May 21, 2007 — Today the Schott Foundation for Public Education announced that Dr. John H. Jackson, will become the Foundation’s new President as of July 2, 2007. Dr. Jackson joins The Schott Foundation after seven productive years in leadership positions at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He replaces former Schott President Rosa A. Smith, Ph.D. and plans to take the program successes she set in motion at Schott to the next level.
For Immediate Release The Schott Foundation Was Awarded the Council on Foundations Critical Impact Award on April 29, 2007 at the Council on Foundation’s Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington
Three high schools will be honored for the high achievement of their African-American male students by The Schott Foundation for Public Education. Dr. Rosa A. Smith, President and CEO of The Schott Foundation for Public Education announced that Brush High School in the South Euclid-Lyndhurst school district, near Cleveland, Ohio; the Frederick Douglass Academy in New York City, and Elmont Memorial High School in the Sewanhaka school district, Nassau County, Long Island have been selected for the honor.
Dear Friends, After more than five extraordinary years of visionary leadership, Dr. Rosa A. Smith has decided that next spring she will step down as President and CEO. As she leaves Schott and enters a new place in her career and life’s work — with Schott support — she will take her nationally acclaimed Black boys work to its next level. She put it this way: “The achievement results for the majority of black male students are at a crisis level and require the best thinking and practices available to us.”
