Discover is donating $25,000.00 to one lucky public school.
Sara W. works at Williams Preparatory, an Uplift Education school in Dallas, Texas. Uplift Education mission is “to create and sustain public schools of excellence that empower students to reach their highest potential and inspire a lifelong love of learning, achievement, service, and responsible citizenship.”
Read below for more information about Uplift Education’s mission and goals:
Each school provides free college preparatory education in a community that has limited high quality public education options. Our goal is to completely CLOSE the achievement gap between students, regardless of their ethnic or socio-economic background, while ensuring that 100% of our students graduate and enroll in college.
Commit to College: Uplift Education is committed to building a brighter future – one student at a time. We do this by creating quality, college preparatory public schools in underserved communities. Each student must be accepted into a two- or four-year college institution in order to receive their diploma from an Uplift high school.
Commit to Community: Our community approach means that we actively reach out to local leaders and invite them to help us improve education in their communities by serving on our local boards and being advocates for our mission in their local neighborhoods.
Commit to Change: By nurturing academic performance and civic responsibility from kindergarten through high school, we do more than expand our students’ horizons. We also change people’s perceptions of what is possible in public education.-http://www.uplifteducation.org/211110114121756103/site/default.asp
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Hi everyone, I would like to add to this post by commenting on the students here at Williams Preparatory. These children come from some of the roughest neighborhoods in Dallas. Many will be first generation high school graduates in their family, let alone the first generation going to college. These students are some of the most dedicated people I have ever met. They come to school early and stay late for extra tutoring. They have Saturday school once a month when they come to prepare themselves for the state exams, because they know that they are behind due o their ethnic background. Our students are 98% Hispanic, many of which immigrated to the US in their lifetime. They have overcome many struggles to get where they are today, and this year we will be seeing our first graduating class walk across the stage.
To make the college goal become a reality for these children we hve a program installed that is called, “Road to College.” This department makes sure the kids apply for college correctly, apply for financial aid, and pan end of the year trips. The end of year trips give our students the opportunity to leave Dallas (which many don’t do) and they get to see the united States and colleges along the way. Visiting the schools makes their dream of college more of a reality. For them to be able to say, “I want to go to Purdue, North Carolina, or MIT becomes something tangible because they have been there. This year the trips have been reduced to the south because the funding is no longer there. If we were to get the $25,000 from Discover, we could put that money to the End of Year trips to get the kids out of the state of Texas and into a line of thinking that they can go anywhere.
So, please vote on facebook, it is easy to do and you can vote every day. Please pass along the message to your family and friends to support a small schol that could really use your help. THANK YOU! and a HUGE THANK YOU to OMFC for posting this on your website, it seriously almost made me cry when I saw it.
trying to find you on facebook, wats ur profile
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