Education
Overview
Values
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Core Values of Member Schools:

  1. Are Christ-based and reflect His example of compassion for the poor and needy among us in agreement with the StreetSchool Network™ Statement of Faith.
  2. Provide access for all:
    • Schools admit and serve non-Christian and Christian students who are at-risk of educational and personal failure.
    • Schools are geographically located in the neighborhoods they serve, do not discriminate based on race and racially reflect the neighborhoods in which they serve with a focus on reaching out to minority students who are at the greatest risk for not graduating.
    • Serve those low on the socio-economic ladder.
    • Are willing to admit and serve students with academic deficiencies.
    • Are committed to providing a safe environment for every student.
    • Provide age and need appropriate social services.
  3. Low student/teacher ratio of 10:1 and a family-type environment that ensures students develop positive relationships with adults.
  4. Locally supported and driven.
  5. Committed to holistic student development evidenced by:
    • Personalized School Climate, a small, family-like environment
    • Individualized Academic Development, each student with a Student Learning & Career Transition Plan (SLCTP)
    • Personal/Social Development, including counseling services to change destructive behaviors
    • Career and College Development/Preparation, including career testing, transition support and preparation (apprenticeships, job shadowing, internships, early college).
    • Spiritual development, with a relational introduction to a God that loves them and has a plan for their life
    • Daycare services for teen parents
    • After school/extra-curricular activities to keep kids off the streets during high crime hours
    • Student Outreach Services (SOS) which help students overcome barriers to success.  These might include helping students to solve transportation or addiction issues or access medical care and food and clothing banks. 
    • In the words of founder, Tom Tillapaugh, “People often ask me, what changes these kids? It is nothing short of the sacrificial intervention on the part of loving, caring adults to the point of extreme inconvenience.”