20/20 Vision for Schools exists to transform public schools within a single generation of students. We achieve this by mobilizing students and community stakeholders to partner with schools for sustainable change.
20/20 in the News
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20/20 in the News

by Jeremy Del Rio on Apr 10, 2012 • No Comments
Extra! Extra! Read all about it. The media loves great stories, and 20/20 Vision for School has been a great story since launching as a grassroots awareness campaign in 2008. The vision that local schools would someday educate New York City’s most vulnerable students equitably across economic, racial, and geographic...
Experience 20/20 Vision in Real-Time Online
best practices / case studies

Experience 20/20 Vision in Real-Time Online

by Jeremy Del Rio on Feb 28, 2012 • No Comments
In 20/20′s ongoing effort to open source creative school engagement strategies, we occasionally launch websites to track the ongoing progress of specific school initiatives. These websites serve as Case Studies in real-time, and upon completion provide a road-map for others to follow who might be inspired to lead similar efforts...
Visualize Schools with 20/20 Vision
case studies / resources

Visualize Schools with 20/20 Vision

by Jeremy Del Rio on Dec 19, 2011 • No Comments
What Does 20/20 Actually Look Like? It’s hard sometimes to visualize a paradigm. 20/20 Vision for Schools case studies bring the School Engagement Paradigm to life by profiling on-the-ground stakeholders engaging local students and schools in various ways. PS 34′s 20/20 Vision Prototype Stakeholders: Abounding Grace Ministries and Generation Xcel...
Serve, not just services
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Serve, not just services

by Jeremy Del Rio on Dec 13, 2011 • No Comments
By now you’ve heard the news. Churches are being evicted from New York City schools. True or False? Both. First the bad news. After fighting for a decade to expel churches from holding services in schools, Mayor Bloomberg seemed to prevail last week when the Supreme Court allowed New York...
NYC DOE Celebrates PS 102 Mural
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NYC DOE Celebrates PS 102 Mural

by Jeremy Del Rio on Oct 13, 2011 • No Comments
20/20 Vision for Schools practices what we preach, building a “resume of trust” with the New York City Department of Education by serving schools in meaningful ways. This week the DOE features the “Welcome to PS 102″ mural documentary on its website homepage. Watch the documentary on DOE’s website here.
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Freedom Games: Drama Club
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Freedom Games: Drama Club

by Jeremy Del Rio on Mar 28, 2012 • No Comments
PHOTOS The Freedom Academy Drama Club launched at Freedom Academy High School on March 5th under the leadership of Jessica and Daniel Frith, veteran actors and drama instructors. Enjoy Freedom students as they learn by doing through a series of theater games and workshop activities on March 26th. The drama club is preparing to write...
Now Publishing: Freedom Academy Press
freedom academy / schools

Now Publishing: Freedom Academy Press

by Jeremy Del Rio on Mar 26, 2012 • No Comments
20/20′s partnership with Freedom Academy High School in Brooklyn expanded this month to include online journalism and drama clubs which officially launched on March 5th. The journalism club resurrected the Freedom Academy Press, converting it to an online blog which debuted in time for the start of Spirit Week on March 22. Follow the goings...
jeremy del rio / media / nyc council / op-ed

OpEd: The Constitution is for everyone. Education should be too.

by Jeremy Del Rio on Mar 13, 2012 • No Comments
Our city has a crisis that goes far beyond where congregations gather on weekends. Let’s redirect the city’s energies into partnerships that advance our children. By Fernando Cabrera and Jeremy Del Rio [Originally published by A Journey through NYC Religions, 3/4/12] Our city has a crisis that goes far beyond where congregations gather on weekends....
Celebrating Melanie, Mark, and 20/20 Vision Sundays
Neighborhood Middle School / schools / Vision Sundays

Celebrating Melanie, Mark, and 20/20 Vision Sundays

by Jeremy Del Rio on Feb 27, 2012 • No Comments
Today, Melanie L, a college student from Manhattan’s Lower East Side, begins tutoring students at her junior high school twice a week. She was inspired to reach out to her former student adviser following a Vision Sunday service at her home church, Abounding Grace Ministries three weeks ago. Here’s the email her father sent 20/20...
Music and Motion: Fundraiser for Grand Street Campus
case studies / Grand Street Campus / schools

Music and Motion: Fundraiser for Grand Street Campus

by Jeremy Del Rio on Feb 23, 2012 • No Comments
UPDATE, 2/28: One of the attendees emailed this pic from the Music and Motion event on Saturday. ______________ Love, love, love the creativity of community groups supporting local schools! Williamsburg Church is hosting the Music & Motion fundraising benefit on February 25th for a nearby high school. All proceeds will go to the purchase of...
jeremy del rio / media / op-ed

The sting of church eviction day

by Jeremy Del Rio on Feb 13, 2012 • No Comments
What happened to tolerance and diversity? By The Rev. Richard Del Rio And Jeremy Del Rio / Originally published by NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, 2/12/12 Today, if Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott have their way, our church — Abounding Grace Ministries, which holds weekly services at PS 34 on Avenue D on Manhattan’s...
"I Am ... Now" Performing Arts Club launches at Jamaica High School Today
i am now / jamaica high school / videos / Young Life

“I Am … Now” Performing Arts Club launches at Jamaica High School Today

by Jeremy Del Rio on Feb 3, 2012 • No Comments
20/20 Vision for Schools and Young Life launch the “I Am … Now” performing arts-based student leadership club at Jamaica High School today, along with local partners Greater Allen Cathedral, Bethel Gospel Tabernacle, Calvary Baptist, The Towles Group, and Beauty of the Heart.  Here’s a video highlighting the January 10 “I Am … Now” preview...
Testimony before the NY City Council Education Committee
DOE / nyc council

Testimony before the NY City Council Education Committee

by Jeremy Del Rio on Feb 3, 2012 • No Comments
On February 2, 2012, Jeremy Del Rio represented 20/20 Vision for Schools as a witness on congregation and school partnerships at the NY City Council Education Committee hearing concerning the Department of Education’s pending eviction of sixty-eight congregations from schools on February 12. Below is his prepared statement in support of Resolution 1155. _______________ February...

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