How can we give students options when their public schools are failing them?
What exactly is NCLB and how is it effecting our education system?
How do we ensure that all children are prepared to enter kindergarten?
Why are we struggling to recruit and retain teachers? What reforms do the candidates propose to solve the teacher shortage and improve their working conditions?
With a struggling economy, should lawmakers place further emphasis on federally-funded school-to-work programs? Moreover, do they work?
Who are the key players changing education today?
Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP)
“They do not allow their priorities to be sidetracked in the face of day-to-day pressures and pulls from other directions.”
-www.Hoover.orgDisruptive Innovation: YES Prep exists to increase the number of low-income Houstonians who graduate from a four-year college prepared to compete in the global marketplace and committed to improving disadvantaged communities.
Potential to Serve: Economically disadvantaged, mostly Latino and African-American first-generation college students. Most students enter YES at least one grade level behind in math and English.