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Classroom, Inc.'s innovative curriculum engages students with the greatest needs and helps them develop academic skills essential for success in school and the workplace. With 70% of U.S. students reading below grade level, Classroom, Inc. (CI) focuses on young people in communities where resources are scarce and where students lag behind in basic academic skills. Through our curriculum, teacher training and follow-up site support, our goal is to ensure that, whatever obstacles they face, all young people have a chance to succeed in school and beyond.

The mission of Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, a nonprofit charter management organization, is to open and operate a network of small, high-performing 9-12 and 6-8 public schools in historically underachieving, low-income communities in California that will annually demonstrate student academic achievement growth and graduate students ready for success in college.  Our mission is accomplished through the implementation of Alliance’s five core values:  high expectations for all students, small personalized learning communities, increased instructional time, highly effective teachers and principals, and parents as partners.

Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School is a kindergarten through eighth grade school founded in 1989. We are committed to promoting academic excellence, community responsibility, and vibrant Jewish living. As a community day school, Hausner serves families from a wide range of Jewish backgrounds and religious practices. Today we enroll close to 400 students and provide an exceptional education in science, math, history, literature, Jewish studies, Hebrew language, music, fine arts, sports, and technology. The academic excellence of our program is built on rigorous standards, exceptional faculty, and small student to teacher ratios.

Blue Oak School offers a challenging and stimulating education to children of diverse backgrounds and interests. Balancing structure with choice and the requirements of the group with the gifts of the individual, the School holds itself to the highest standards of responsible educational innovation, so that students develop the skills and habits of learning that endure. Through the culture and community of the School, teachers nurture the development of character and foster confidence, creativity, flexibility and curiosity in each child. Students in turn encourage each other to learn. Relationships among freedom, responsibility, community and environment are explored through studies that engage students as stewards in service to the School, the region and the world.

Reading to Kids is a grassroots organization dedicated to inspiring underserved children with a love of reading, thereby enriching their lives and opportunities for success in the future. Reading clubs are on the second Saturday of every month at eight Los Angeles elementary schools. At the monthly reading clubs, pairs of volunteers read aloud to small groups of children, while their parents receive training on how to encourage their children to read at home. Kids, parents, teachers, and school libraries receive book donations at the end of the reading clubs. These are important donations, as 60 percent of low-income homes do not have age-appropriate reading materials for children.

Bayou Village School wishes to provide children with a rich experience that prepares them to meet the challenges of our world and the future with clarity of thought, a caring heart, and the confidence to initiate change. We are dedicated to finding new ways to make our curriculum accessible to all families who wish to provide it for their children. Furthermore, we desire to provide educational opportunities for parents and the greater community and wish to create within the larger community an environment that embraces the beauty of nature and cultivates respect for it. We would like our school to be a community of parents, teachers and staff who work together to raise and educate all children.

FOUNDED IN 2006, ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION IS A 501 (C)(3) NON-PROFIT CORPORATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO ELIMINATE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THE CORE OF ROCKETSHIP'S INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL IS A TEACHER-LED, TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTED APPROACH TO PERSONALIZED LEARNING THAT MATCHES EACH STUDENT WITH THE RIGHT CONTENT AT THE RIGHT TIME UTILIZING THE RIGHT METHOD OF INSTRUCTION. BY DEEPLY ENGAGING PARENTS IN THEIR STUDENT'S LEARNING AND THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY, ROCKETSHIP DEVELOPS PARENTS WHO BECOME LIFELONG ADVOCATES FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND THEIR COMMUNITY. WORKING ALONGSIDE PARENTS, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, DISTRICTS AND OTHER CHARTER SCHOOLS, ROCKETSHIP IS CATALIZING A MOVEMENT TO ELIMINATE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP IN OUR LIFETIME.

We believe every child has the right to an education regardless of their location, legal status and/or economic background. The Yes We Can Mobile Schools Program is the first bilingual school program for migrant children at the US-MX border. The program currently operates 3 school in the border cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez. The program has enrolled over 1,700 migrant children. The program operates full time from Monday through Friday from 9am-3pm and is taught by accredited teachers. In the program migrant children are given access to full bilingual interactive classrooms, play areas and access to technology.

Canterbury School of Florida educates and nurtures the whole child in mind, body, and spirit in preparation for college and an honorable life as a responsible steward of our world.Core Values We foster a love of learning by discovering and celebrating individual talents and skills through engagement with exemplary teachers in distinctive academic, artistic, athletic, and extra-curricular activities.As an independent school in the Episcopal tradition, we instill and expect integrity, honesty, moral courage, personal accountability, respect, and compassion for others within the context of spiritual awareness.Respecting the diversity of others and valuing the relationships uniting us as a school community, we inspire individual responsibility and a commitment to serve.

Founded in 1785, The Episcopal Academy educates qualified, motivated students to grow intellectually, physically, and spiritually, and to share their talents generously. We are a coeducational community of learners and teachers working to achieve excellence through a strong academic program, comprehensive athletics, and vibrant arts. Our school's Episcopalian heritage with its respect for all faiths forms the basis of our life together. Through a rigorous academic curriculum, complemented by religious instruction, community service, the arts, and athletics, Episcopal Academy seeks to cultivate the mind, body, and spirit of each student. The school endeavors to instill a belief in God and respect for faith, encourage good work habits and thoroughness, and inspire a thirst for knowledge.

Reaching Heights mobilizes community resources to foster highly valued public schools that provide all Cleveland Heights-University Heights students a successful education.Guiding Principles• Our children deserve the best education our community can provide.• Our community benefits from highly valued and successful public schools.• An informed public is important to successful schools.• Vital schools depend upon the support, interest, and involvement of the families and community they serve.• An independent community-based organization can help citizens contribute to their public schools and can build confidence in them.• Supporting teachers, who are the core of the educational process, fosters educational success.

Friends Western School aims to awaken a love of learning in each child; promote academic excellence; and prepare students to use their knowledge with creativity and compassion. Quaker values, such as peace, simplicity, community, equity and stewardship are integrated into both curriculum and daily practice. Friends Western is a cooperative microschool, where families enjoy a strong sense of community. We value our kids’ emotional and social development on par with, and in support of, deep academic learning. Our teachers collaborate on a child-directed approach to curriculum, guided by our kids’ interests and passions so that learning occurs naturally. Students enjoy weekly theater, music, art, yoga, and monthly all-school hikes.