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Mobile
Area Education Foundation
Mobile, AL
Contact: Carolyn Akers
Executive Director
334 476 0002
cakers@maef.net
The Mobile Area Education Foundation (MAEF) YES
WE CAN initiative will engage parents, educators,
business leaders, and citizens in discussions on standards—using
a community development model and process designed
by The Harwood Institute—to build a community
of stakeholders that takes responsibility for public
education and reconnects to its public schools. Education
Trust will assist the MAEF with strategies to gather,
analyze, and publicize community data. The data will
lay a foundation for the development of a community-wide
strategic plan and an accountability model. In a parallel
effort, MAEF will build new partnerships and strengthen
existing ones to connect local efforts with state efforts
through an 80-member network of Alabama-based local
education funds.
MAEF has set the following goals for the three-year
term of the initiative:
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Assemble a high performance advisory team to
provide the strategic direction and leadership
for the initiative.
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Build the organizational capacity of Mobile
County Public School System (MCPSS) and MAEF for
data collection and analysis to document current
achievement levels and mark progress.
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Develop preliminary findings and recommendations
on MCPSS issues identified through community discussion
and data analysis.
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Complete a Community Vision for Student Achievement
and develop a strategic plan for improvement.
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