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January 19, 2010 New York
Last year was the most difficult one for poor New Yorkers since the inception of Robin Hood 20 years ago. But thanks to your generosity, in 2009 we invested over $130 million in more than 200 programs and schools throughout the city’s poorest neighborhoods, touching more than 400,000 New Yorkers. Here, we focus on Robin Hood’s investments in education.
Education—and specifically, the high school diploma—has been proven time and again as the single greatest deciding factor between a life in poverty and a life of opportunity. This is true in any economy, and Robin Hood invested $23.5 million in schools and programs that rivet on educational outcomes. Your generosity helped to educate more than 23,000 New York City students in 2009.
To name just a few achievements that we’re proud of:
- Standardized test scores announced in May revealed that charter schools supported by Robin Hood outperformed their districts by an average of 17 percentage points in reading and math. At Excellence Boys Charter School of Bedford Stuyvesant, Leadership Prep and Williamsburg Collegiate, every single scholar scored at or above grade level in math.
- In New York State, passing the Regents exams is a requirement for high school graduation. Many of the charter schools we fund choose to administer the test in eighth grade. At KIPP Infinity, all students passed the math Regents, and 92 percent passed the science Regents.
- The transfer high schools funded by Robin Hood are educating nearly two thousand dropouts and immigrants whose educations have been disrupted. If it weren’t for these schools, a small percentage would graduate high school. With Robin Hood’s help—your help—80 percent are getting those all-important diplomas.
In October we made a new grant to School of One, an initiative of the New York City Department of Education that uses technology to individualize math instruction for entire grades. We project that this highly differentiated math instruction for sixth grade students at high-poverty schools may well raise their high school graduation rates by at least 10 percentage points. School of One was named one of the top 50 inventions of 2009 by Time Magazine.
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Learn more about 2009 and 2010 and how Robin Hood:
Heals | Feeds | Nurtures | Shelters | Trains
Overview: 2009 Accomplishments, 2010 Challenges
See how Robin Hood Teaches. Watch William's story.
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