Goal #2 - Central Texas eliminates achievement gaps while improving overall student performance.
Arnold Garcia, Austin American-Statesman - Co-Captain |
| Austin Area Urban League – life skills, youth empowerment, and youth employment partnership programs are designed to provide channels to success for students from traditionally challenged backgrounds. |
| Austin Partners in Education–channels business and community volunteers into the AISD district, and provides reading and math in-classroom volunteer coaches to enhance student performance. |
| Breakthrough Collaborative- partners middle-school students with college and high school students who serve as teachers, role models and mentors, providing real-life examples that it’s ‘cool to be smart’. |
| Communities in Schools – places trained social workers in schools to support students who are struggling, primarily with social and non-academic issues that block their education success. |
| Ready by 21 Coalition – is a coalition of youth services providers aligning collective services and metrics to support youth who face challenges to achieve self-sufficiency by 21. |
| River City Youth Foundation – is a model of comprehensive neighborhood-based youth services that maximizes every child's potential and improves communities. The Foundation focuses on the community of Dove Springs. |
| The Austin Project – a local non-profit dedicated to helping children overcome barriers that prevent them from reaching their full potential. Their academic program works closely with Austin ISD on several initiatives across a range of grades. |
| United Way Capital Area – Youth Leadership Council has adopted closing the 8th grade achievement gap as its primary council goal. |
