Goal #3 - Students graduate college-and-career ready and prepared for a lifetime of learning.
Ed Sharpe, UT Austin - Co-Captain |
| Austin Partners in Education - provides volunteer coaches to AISD schools for students who are just below the college ready HERC standard to gain college ready skills. |
| KIPP Austin - |
| 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’. |
| College Connection - a program of Austin Community College that has become a state model encouraging students to continue their education by having all seniors in partner districts fill out college applications and financial aid forms and apply and gain admittance to ACC. |
| College Forward - provides “near peer” college preparatory services to motivated, economically-disadvantaged students, in order to facilitate their transition to college and make the process exciting and rewarding. |
| 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. |
| Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce - focuses its business-driven education and talent efforts on getting more students ready for college and transitioning into post-secondary education. |
| Ready by 21 – ia a coalition of youth services providers in Travis County aligning services and metrics to support youth who face challenges to achieve self-sufficiency by 21. |
| Student Futures Project – a joint project of the Ray Marshall Center and Skillpoint Alliance in 9 Central Texas districts that tracks graduates beyond high school. |
| Texas High School Project - is dedicated to all Texas students graduating high school ready for college and career success. Working in partnership with the TEA, THSP supports high school redesign, model charter schools, T-STEM and early college start programs in Texas high schools. | Hispanic Scholarship Consortium - |
| Skillpoint Alliance - |
