20/20 Vision for Schools exists to transform public education within a single generation of students. We achieve our purpose by inspiring and mobilizing Community Stakeholders to partner for education reform.
Visualize Schools with 20/20 Vision

Visualize Schools with 20/20 Vision

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

Serve, not just services

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...
Expressing Thanksgiving for Schools

Expressing Thanksgiving for Schools

Urban Youth Workers Institute celebrates schools this month in a guest post by 20/20 Vision for Schools director Jeremy Del Rio. Help us brainstorm creative ways to express thanksgiving for/to schools tangibly this season (and beyond).  Here are our initial ideas. In the short week before Thanksgiving, bring breakfast to...
NYC DOE Celebrates PS 102 Mural

NYC DOE Celebrates PS 102 Mural

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.
"Welcome to PS 102" - The Documentary Experience

“Welcome to PS 102″ – The Documentary Experience

The “Welcome to PS 102″ documentary experience is now available online thanks to the brilliant 20/20 Vision for Schools intern Jordan Cortese! Watch it here. Track the entire PS 102 Mural from start to finish at the project blog, complete with photos, design sketches, student submissions, and more.
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January 29 Brooklyn Bridge March & Related Media

January 29 Brooklyn Bridge March & Related Media

Join 20/20 Vision for Schools on Sunday, January 29 at 3:30 pm, as we march across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall in solidarity with 68 congregations the City is presently evicting from schools on February 12. Following 20/20 Vision for Schools’ Statement on the School/Church Eviction Controversy on January 12th, here are links to...
Protest and Invest: Statement on the NYC School/Church Eviction Controversy

Protest and Invest: Statement on the NYC School/Church Eviction Controversy

MEDIA ADVISORY January 12, 2012 Contact: Jeremy Del Rio (347) 921-4426 20/20 Vision for Schools stands in solidarity with the sixty-eight congregations scheduled for eviction from New York City public schools a month from today, February 12, 2012. We join our voice with theirs to urge Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Chancellor Dennis Walcott, and the City...
I Am Now: 20/20 launches arts-based leadership program at Jamaica High School

I Am Now: 20/20 launches arts-based leadership program at Jamaica High School

20/20 Vision for Schools and five community partners officially launched the recruiting phase of “I Am Now: Creating Change through Performing Arts” on January 10 with two student assemblies at Jamaica High School. The assemblies featured our amazing club faculty of Lawrence Coles, Din Tolbert, Katrice Walker, and guest hip hop artist and film maker...
Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

Thanks to all our friends, partners, and supporters for an amazing 2011. Looking forward to an even more incredible 2012.
"Save our School. Fight for Freedom."

“Save our School. Fight for Freedom.”

UPDATE of 12/12/11: As of December 9, the Department of Education decided to keep Freedom Academy open for at least another year. That’s not to say the fight is over, just that Freedom has a year to develop and demonstrate a turnaround plan with the continued assistance of 20/20 Vision for Schools and other community...