Building Futures Educational Initiative is a year-round program that focuses on improving school engagement, attendance, and performance of Boston Public’s truant middle school youth.
Boston suffers from a dropout crisis. 2000 kids dropout each year in our city. The Manhattan Institute found that out of 100 school districts nationwide, Boston Public Schools (BPS) ranked 84th in terms of its graduation rate of 52%. A John Hopkins study found that Boston 6th graders who attended school less than 90% of the time had only an 18% high school graduation rate. BUYF intervenes early by serving low-income, minority middle school truant youth from Boston’s toughest neighborhoods.
Life Coaching one-on-one, Small Group Mentoring, College Visits, Job Site Tours, Community Service Projects, Community Mapping, Fun Activities (Movies, Beach, Amusement Park), Home Visits, School Staff and Student meetings, Homework Help
With a 60% reduction in truancy, BUYF intervention produces a $458 million yearly cost savings to society serving 1800 truants and $1.1 billion cost savings to society over eight years if every truant middle-schooler in BPS is helped.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
