Innovate Public Schools supports parents across Silicon Valley to build organizations in their communities that can successfully push for better schools and hold the system accountable to the needs of their children.
We are happy that the Supervisors voted to sign onto a deal that allocates $13.5 million to fund teacher salary increases and $52 million to a reserve fund for teacher wages in 2020-21. We continue to call on the school district to use any resources they can to support schools with large numbers of underserved students. In particular, we would like to see the funds go to the specific schools that Superintendent Vincent Matthews has identified as PITCH schools.
During the summer, most students lose two months of math learning, and low-income students typically lose two to three months of advancement in reading.
On Tuesday, Innovate Public Schools parent leaders and Promise Academy (Promise) founder Dr. Anthony Johnson met with San Jose Unified School District for a final push to secure a school site in downtown San Jose.
On Thursday May 17th, a hundred parents gathered in San Jose to attend the “Parent Empowerment Forum on Special Education,” co-hosted by Innovate Public Schools and Parents Helping Parents (PHP).
San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Superintendent Vincent Matthews recently released a list of the 10 schools with the biggest achievement gaps. This underscores that the gaps between underserved students and their more privileged peers don’t just show up across the community, but often there are huge gaps within the same school.