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Education
Established in part to equalize opportunities for all citizens, America’s public schools are the foundation of our great democracy. However, achievement gaps continue to exist among demographic groups served by the public school system. While the causes of these achievement gaps are many, public education practiced equitably and effectively holds great promise for addressing one of the greatest challenges facing our democracy: extending the possibilities of the American dream to all of our community’s children.
The ability of our schools and school districts to develop, attract and retain high quality teachers and place them in schools where the children need them the most is a cornerstone of ensuring high quality, equitable public education. As America itself has addressed civil rights issues in employment and as women and people of color gain more career options, it has become more difficult to ensure that our community’s best and brightest choose education as a career and stay in education – at least for a good portion of their careers. Moreover, those schools serving our most vulnerable students find it even more difficult to recruit and retain great educators.
To address these needs in public education, Rose Community Foundation will fund projects in the following two areas:
Teacher Quality
Projects and efforts that support the development, recruitment, and/or retention of great educators to ensure that teaching in low-income, high-minority schools is of the highest quality.
Systemic Change
Projects and efforts that both seek to close the achievement gap, while producing quantitative student achievement results so that the success of the projects is measurable.
Recognizing that immediate needs for students must be met and that schools alone cannot raise student achievement, the Foundation will make a limited number of grants each year to education programs operating outside the school day.
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