Teach For America - San Diego
Home to the sixth largest school district in the nation, school and student success in San Diego is deeply varied. In any given year, students growing up in low-income communities such as City Heights and the Diamond Neighborhoods, experience vastly different academic outcomes than those growing up in affluent communities such as Scripps Ranch or Coronado. On average, high school graduation rates hover above 80 percent. However, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, in 2011 students from low-income areas of San Diego were 66 percent less likely to be proficient in math or reading than their more affluent peers, severely limiting opportunities in college and in the workforce.
Teach For America was founded to help tackle this issue by bringing graduates from our top universities and bringing into the classroom to impact the lives and educational trajectories of children in low-income neighborhoods. By taking top notch college graduates who otherwise would not have considered education and placing them in the classroom Teach For America has been able to change the way communities think about education and the lives of many thousands of children.
On any given day it is easy to find a news article detailing how our educational system is broken. Teach For America is looking to help fix this system. Their approach is simple and that is to get the highest level of talent from our top universities and give them the tools to affect change in our public education system. Most TFA Alumni are either still in the classroom or involved in education through a position of leadership within the districts or the communities in which they worked. This formula is what has allowed Teach For America to change communities and change the lives of millions of students.
I am proud to be a board member of Teach For America San Diego and I ask that you help support this worthy organmization with a donation that will help us recruit and train more teachers to impact the educational system in San Diego. We are America's finest city and we can also have the finest educational system to go along with it.
