Here are the two paragraphs that bother me about this story:
The study also shows that even a volunteer program with hundreds of volunteers, a big vision and staying power isn’t a cure-all for the challenges of urban education. Despite efforts to boost achievement and attract middle-class families in the area to the school, poverty remains high (more than 80 percent) and academic performance low (McClintock earned a D on state ratings this year, up from an F the year before).
Attendance gains didn’t last when the students moved up to high school, with absenteeism soaring in ninth grade for former McPIE participants.
Is this what's going to happen after $55 MILLION Dollars disappears from Project LIFT?
I'm all for volunteerism and applaud the church for doing it, but doesn't this prove the problems facing a majority of these kids comes from the home as evident by the dismal performance of these same kids once they enter the ninth grade?
Church saved Charlotte’s McClintock Middle School from closing, study finds
Without the Christ Lutheran Church volunteers who helped turn McClintock Middle School into a hub of robotics and engineering activity, the school might be nothing but a vacant lot today.
That’s one finding from a UNC Charlotte Urban Institute study of an eight-year partnership between the church and McClintock, which now boasts a technology magnet program and a new building with state-of-the-art labs.
McClintock Partners in Education, known as McPIE, has long stood out as the gold standard for community engagement with one of Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s high-poverty schools. Christ Lutheran has hosted family nights that bring hordes of parents and students after school hours and has helped the faculty develop the kind of extras that often elude schools without affluent families.
On a gut level, it seems obvious that volunteers are good for a school. But the study, which CMS and the church presented at a Tuesday news conference, represents a rare and detailed attempt to quantify the value of that work..... MORE
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article36858798.html
That’s one finding from a UNC Charlotte Urban Institute study of an eight-year partnership between the church and McClintock, which now boasts a technology magnet program and a new building with state-of-the-art labs.
McClintock Partners in Education, known as McPIE, has long stood out as the gold standard for community engagement with one of Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s high-poverty schools. Christ Lutheran has hosted family nights that bring hordes of parents and students after school hours and has helped the faculty develop the kind of extras that often elude schools without affluent families.
On a gut level, it seems obvious that volunteers are good for a school. But the study, which CMS and the church presented at a Tuesday news conference, represents a rare and detailed attempt to quantify the value of that work..... MORE
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article36858798.html
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