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Projects & Recent Accomplishments
At See Forever, we are engaged
in a range of activities in support of our students and our
schools.
Current
Projects
Below are some of our current priorities:
- The Maya Angelou Academy is the school at Oak Hill Youth Center, the District’s secure facility for youth who have been adjudicated delinquent and committed to the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS). See Forever assumed management of the Maya Angelou Academy Academy in June of 2007, bringing with it the same positive culture and high expectations that make our Maya Angelou Public Charter Schools so successful.
- Developing partnerships with
an extended range of colleges and summer program providers
so that our students can spend time over the summer
at places like outdoor leadership centers, colleges,
art programs, and more. Our goal is to enable our
students to have an enriching experience offsite over
the summer.
- Advocating at the City Council
level for improved funding for after school programming,
job training, special education services, and counseling
and mental health services.
- Developing, with the support
of the Lumina Foundation and the Commonweal Foundation,
two school-based initiatives designed to improve student
performance beyond high school. The Lumina funded
program is a three-year pilot program designed to
provide intensive support to alumni during their first
year of college, and the Commonweal funded program
is one-year grant to research and provide real-world
recommendations on transition programming for students
with special needs. We are piloting each of these
programs this school-year.
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Future Projects
Over the next few months we will start working on some
key initiatives. Below are a few of them:
- Launching an endowment campaign that will ensure
long-term funding to our campuses, enabling them to
provide the sort of support that our students need,
but that extends beyond what is provided by public
charter school funding. If you are interested in supporting
this ambitious development plan, please email Ingrid
Padgett at DevelopmentDept@seeforever.org
- Working on solving some technical and legislative
hurdles that can make it difficult for us to serve
our students. An example is to fix the process here
in the District so that public charter schools can
gain Medicaid reimbursements for mandated mental health
services.
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