middle school mathematics achievement gap that exists between students of color or
low-income students and their peers. Research is increasingly clear that students need
higher-level math courses -- such as algebra and geometry -- if they are to be adequately
prepared for college or the workforce.
highlights of our work included professional development training for more than 600
teachers, improving their skills and effectiveness in the classroom, and enabling more
than 5,300 students to participate in after-school or summer learning programs.
Peninsula Partnership Leadership Council, we partnered to design and promote The Big
Lift, an effort to get all children in San Mateo County reading by third grade. We also
partnered with the county offices of education in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to
pilot the use of an important new tool for assessing children's readiness for school.
students of color into the wrong mathematics courses, hindering their chances to graduate
from high school with the correct credits for college admission. We held two meetings
to inform school superintendents of these liabilities, and we are following up on this
work in 2014.
are critical to advancing their careers. But many would be unable to study those
subjects if it weren't for Building Skills Partnership (BSP), a nonprofit that offers
training and volunteer tutoring programs for more than 1,000 local janitors and other
service workers annually. SVCF is a long-time supporter of BSP, which often holds
tutoring and classes in Vocational English as a Second Language, computing,
citizenship, health, parenting and finances at worksites such as Google, Cisco,
Microsoft and Stanford University.
$1.7 million under
our education
strategy in 2013
development
training for more
than 600 teachers