20/20 Vision for Schools Gets a Little Clearer
Posted on January 16, 2009
The January 2009 issue of Tri-State Voice featured a cover story on 20/20 Vision. Here’s an excerpt:
As a first-hand witness to the power of adoption, Jeremy Del Rio knows that failing public schools and students can be changed with some intervention. That’s why he helped found the 20/20 Vision for Schools last year with The Coalition of Urban Youth Workers, a regional network of youth specialists. The seeds for the initiative were planted when Del Rio’s Generation Xcel youth group teamed with the Southern Baptists to paint some local schools in a summer community service project, which opened a door with school administrators.
The New York City Leadership Center has embraced 20/20 as its first initiative, and brought together representatives from the Church, business, education, and political arenas for its “Leadership Conversation.” The consortium sought to find strategies and solutions regarding urban education, specifically in New York City, as it heard from various national experts and made recommendations that will enhance the “20/20 Vision Adopt-A-School” program.
“This is a time of urgency,” said Newark Mayor Corey Booker. “Why do we tolerate a world where children, born with God’s genius, are going to school in environments that are not nurturing that genius and manifesting the divine within them?”
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