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Organization Description
Communities In Schools is the nation’s largest dropout prevention organization. With one in three Americans not completing high school, dropping out is a crisis that cannot be ignored. For more than 30 years, Communities In Schools has focused on ending this crisis. Working in more than 3,200 K-12 public schools, CIS places a trained site coordinator in a school, where he or she serves as the critical point of contact linking students, teachers, principal, and the larger community. Whether students need eyeglasses, tutoring, nutritious food, or just a safe place to be, CIS finds the resources and delivers them to young people right inside schools where they spend their days. Nearly 1.2 million young people every year receive direct services through more than 200 Communities In Schools local affiliates in 27 states and the District of Columbia. Between 80-90 percent of our tracked students show improvement in academic achievement, attendance, behavior and promotion to the next grade level.
The mission of Communities In Schools is to champion the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life. By bringing caring adults into schools to address children’s unmet needs, CIS provides the link between educators and the community. The result: teachers are free to teach, and students – many in jeopardy of dropping out – have the opportunity to focus on learning.
Communities In Schools believes that every child needs and deserves the “Five Basics”:
A one-on-one relationship with a caring adult
A safe place to learn and grow
A healthy start and a healthy future
A marketable skill to use upon graduation
A chance to give back to peers and community.
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Michelle Obama wants you to give. Give your time, your money and your effort to making this world a better place. She's setting a good example herself.
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Investment Will be Used to Improve the Lives of Young People Nationwide.
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It was during Precious Oliver’s sixth grade year, punctuated by periods of skipped school, classroom disruptions and altercations with teachers, that she came into contact with Communities In Schoo...
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Join us for the 21st Annual National Service-Learning Conference — Inspire. Imagine. Innovate! Held March 24-27, 2010 in San Jose, California, this event celebrates service-learning as a force that spans cultural and national boundaries, builds communities, and strengthens young people.
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I think there cannot be enough education to go around, especially on Human Rights, International Issues and above all-Climate Change. Everyone should be aware of these issues, but one must have enough education and opportunity to get aware of this. Especially in an advanced nation as the USA, NO child can be left behind. Education is even more essential than healthcare and benifits the Nation, the Region and The World in whole. Mind you- an uneducated child will not only suffer its own agonies, society will suffer as a whole. Do what you can to prevent this and contribute to a better world. Start supporting children or students. I do ! (The Latter)
Just to give an idea about the difference education and opportunities can make: here is a very wise article for illustration from China, a Nation that just turned from Night to Day in Education and such. http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=2036131