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Springboard Schools recipient of $400,000 Grant
James Irvine Foundation Announces $10.9 Million in New Grants Springboard Schools recipient of $400,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Board of Directors
of The James Irvine Foundation today approved 23 grants totaling $10.9
million in support of the Foundation's mission of expanding opportunity
for the people of California to participate in a vibrant, successful,
and inclusive society.
A $400,000 grant went to Springboard Schools of San Francisco for its
work to improve academic achievement of English language learners with
several Central Valley high schools.
Springboard Schools integratate best practices for improving academic
achievement of English Language Learners with a cohort of Central Valley
high schools.
About Springboard Schools
Springboard Schools is a California-based nonprofit and non-partisan
network of educators and others committed to raising student achievement
and narrowing the achievement gap. Springboard was founded in 1995 as
the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (BASRC).
Since that time Springboard has worked with 325 schools in 74 school
districts in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Central Valley and Southern
California. In 2001, researchers based at Stanford University’s
Center for Research on the Context of Teaching found that achievement
in Springboard (then BASRC) schools rose at a faster rate than in a
carefully-matched comparison group of schools, and that those schools
that implemented the program with most fidelity made the greatest gains.
For more information about Springboard Schools and this study, visit
our website at
www.springboardschools.org or call 415 348-5500.
About the James Irvine Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation is a private, nonprofit grantmaking foundation
dedicated
to expanding opportunity for the people of California to participate
in a vibrant,
inclusive, and successful society. With more than $1.5 billion in assets,
the Foundation is the largest, multipurpose private foundation that
makes grants exclusively to benefit the people of California.
The Foundation organizes its grantmaking into three program areas--Arts,
Youth, and
California Perspectives--because it believes that intervention in these
areas can deliver strategic, long-term benefits to the state's diverse
and growing population. The goal of the Foundation's Arts program is
to promote a vibrant and inclusive artistic cultural environment in
California. The goal of the Youth program is to increase the number
of low-income youth in California who complete high school on time and
attain a postsecondary credential by the age of 25. The goal of the
California Perspectives program is to inform public understanding, engage
Californians, and improve decision-making on significant issues of long-term
consequence to the state.
For more information about The James Irvine Foundation, please visit
their Web site at www.irvine.org or call 415-777-2244.
Springboard is an organization known for giving schools the 
tools to improve.
