“I Am … Now” Performing Arts Club launches at Jamaica High School Today
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
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...
January 29 Brooklyn Bridge March & Related Media
UPDATE, 1/31/12: The January 29 march generated a fair amount of media coverage. Below are several of the stories: WORLDmag.com | NYC pastor faces eviction from community he loves to serve (Profile of Abounding Grace pastor Richard Del Rio and 20/20 executive director Jeremy Del Rio). Huckabee: War on common sense? (From Mike Huckabee’s opening monologue: ”Now that...
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
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!
Thanks to all our friends, partners, and supporters for an amazing 2011. Looking forward to an even more incredible 2012.
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 (Manhattan) The story of PS...
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 to evict 160 congregations. In...
