Los Angeles Education Partnership

This two-year project will create a community school at Bethune Middle School, providing a mechanism to link together the service providers at the school, ensure that services reach students who need them most, and connect the services with overall school reform.  A full-time community-school coordinator will be placed at the school and a collaborative will be established to coordinate and integrate services and use data to inform change.  Bethune, whose graduates attend Fremont High School, is part of the larger Fremont Initiative, a five year effort by the Los Angeles Education Partnership and the Los Angeles Unified School District to raise academic achievement by improving teaching and learning “inside” classrooms while establishing community schools to organize and integrate “outside” community resources.  The overall goal is to increase the percentage of Fremont High students who graduate from high school, prepared for postsecondary opportunities and life.