YOUTH EDUCATION FOR TOMORROW
Project: YOUTH EDUCATION FOR TOMORROW
Sponsor: Public/Private Ventures
IPS Staff: Marion Pines, Michael Ford, Irene Hechler, and Karen Garrido
Purpose and Approach
The Youth Education for Tomorrow program was funded by Public/Private Ventures under a three-year federal grant to assist community-based and faith-based organizations in becoming Supplemental Educational Services (SES) providers. SES is a part of the "No Child Left Behind" Initiative (Title I) and includes an after-school tutoring program to help ensure that all children have the same opportunity at a promising future. Parents of the elementary and middle school students may choose their SES pro-vider from an approved vendor list.
The Sar Levitan Center at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies worked to assist three community-based and faith-based organizations located in Baltimore City in their quest to pro-vide services to eligible elementary and middle schoolchildren in Baltimore Maryland. Serving as an intermediary between Public/Private Ventures and the three sites, the Center was responsible for moni-toring the delivery of services, capacity building, and assisting in the building of meaningful relation-ships with the Baltimore City Public School System and surrounding communities.
Results
The three sites were successful in qualifying for inclusion on the State of Maryland Baltimore City Public School SES vendor list. The project was ongoing throughout the 2007-2008 school year as par-ents selected their SES providers. At the end of the original grant period, in July 2007, the project was renamed Balanced Literacy. Public/Private Ventures ended the project due to funding issues.
