Help a City Year Milwaukee team tutor 200 students

More than one million students give up on school each year in America and 50% of those dropouts come from just 12% of schools. City Year AmeriCorps members serve where the need is greatest. In Milwaukee Public Schools, where the high school graduation rate is only 63%, City Year serves in eight schools with 3^rd through 9^th grade students to get them on track to success. Serving on teams of 8-10, City Year corps members provide focused, research-driven interventions to underperforming students. As near-peers, corps members are uniquely positioned to form a strong bond with students to help them succeed. In partnership with school staff, City Year corps members monitor student performance on the early warning indicators of dropping out - poor attendance, disruptive behavior and poor course performance in math or English. In addition to providing small group and individual student support corps members provide whole-class support, run after-school programs to extend the learning day and put on whole school educational events.

 During the 2012-2013 school year, City Year Milwaukee corps members served over 5,610 students in eight schools, with 1,630 of these receiving focused support in math, English, attendance or behavior coaching. Your donation helped a team of eight corps members provide focused tutoring and mentoring services to 200 students to get them on track to success. Each of Milwaukee’s eight teams provided over 2,100 hours of whole class support and 720 hours of focused interventions for underperforming students in English and math, while also spending over 450 hours with students in after-school/extended learning time space. In Milwaukee, 136 students receiving attendance coaching improved their attendance, with 111 of these no longer being chronically absent by April.

 Please see the attached corps member testimonials which are two examples of students we served this year.

 Tweets from City Year Milwaukee corps members

• Nelson @nelsCYMKE One of my English focus list students has struggled all semester. Today, she received a 97% on her latest test. So PROUD! #makebetterhappen
• Mary ‏@MHallingCYMKE
• A truant student in FY12 brought his MAPs scores up ~20 pts in both ELA & math in FY13. This is why I trust CMs to #makebetterhappen

 Quotes

• (A principal of a partner school) Corps members achieve their success through countless ways… by assisting my middle school teachers daily in the classroom, as well as by working with specific focus list students who have been identified as needing extra support in the areas of math and reading.  Corps members work closely with students who have negative attendance, helping them develop plans to improve their behavior.
• (A corps member reflecting on the best part of her service year.) Seeing my 3 of my students make amazing gains. One of my students went from a 1.6 GPA to a 3.3 GPA. Another student went up 16 points on the MAPS test.
• (A corps member explaining why he was returning for a second year of service as a team leader) I had seen the transformational power of City Year in both myself and my students, and I wanted to grow more, and I wanted to lead a group of young people to help change students' lives.