Results List
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Elev8 Baltimore and Chicago Schools Win Department of Education Award
Elev8 Baltimore and Chicago Schools Win Department of Education Award Elev8 Picked as a Model School-Community Partnership As Part of Together for Tomorrow School Improvement Program WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) recognized two sites…
Author: Elev8
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Elev8 Youth Speak for Themselves on Capitol Hill
On April 22, students from 20 Elev8 middle schools across the country filed into legislative office buildings surrounding the nation’s capitol, nervous but prepared to speak out on issues they had selected themselves, including school safety and funding for afterschool programs. The visit to Capitol…
Author: Elev8
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Graduating Seniors Testify to Elev8’s Strengths
VIDEO: Graduating high school seniors speak to the value of the Chicago Elev8 program they participated in during middle school. By Gordon Walek Terranisha Douglas, left, and Amber Sims, graduating seniors at Perspectives Academy in Auburn Gresham, say the Elev8 programs they experienced in middle…
Author: LISC Chicago
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Elev8 Wins Department of Education Award
On Monday, October 15, at an event held in Washington, the U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) recognized Elev8 programs in Baltimore and Chicago as Together for Tomorrow School Improvement Champions. Elev8 was one of 24 initiatives named…
Author: Elev8
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The New Year Brings a New Home for Elev8
This is to announce that the Elev8 Initiative is moving to a new home effective January 1, 2011. We are thrilled to announce that Youth Development Incorporated (YDI) has made a commitment to incorporate Elev8’s full service community school approach, and the current Elev8 staff,…
Author: Elev8 New Mexico
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Elev8 Students to Congressman: Immigration Reform Now
By Maureen Kelleher. For many Chicago middle school students, immigration reform isn’t an academic abstraction. Some of them are undocumented, or have friends and classmates who are, and they’re apprehensive about what life beyond the 8th grade holds for them. This was abundantly clear earlier…
Author: LISC/Chicago
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Field Dispatches: Elev8 youth-led immigration forum
On Saturday, August 7th at Orozco Academy in Chicago, more than 400 youth, parents, and community members came together to support comprehensive immigration reform. Let by teams of youth from each of the five Elev8-Chicago sites (Ames/Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Marquette/SouthWest Organizing Project, Orozco/The Resurrection…
Author: The Federation for Community Schools
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VIDEO: UCSF and the Impact of Elev8
How do you keep kids healthy, in school and on track to success? Since 2011, the UCSF Elev8 program has partnered Nursing and Dental faculty and students with five Oakland middle schools to provide health care and promote health equity. In this video, UCSF faculty and…
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New program seeks to Elev8 east Balto. youth, families
A program new to Baltimore is aiming to help nearly 500 families on the east side succeed by focusing specifically on its young people. City, school system and community leaders welcomed a $12 million grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies yesterday to implement Elev8 [pronounced “elevate”].…
Author: Baltimore Examiner
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Field Dispatches: Voices in Action: National Youth Summit
On 26 February 2011 at Howard University in Washington DC, over 350 youth from across the country convened at the “Voices in Action: National Youth Summit” to help the United States’ Department of Education shape its strategies to achieve President Obama’s goal of having the…
Author: Elev8 and the Alliance for Educational Justice
