Los Angeles Education Partnership

Founded in 1984 as the Los Angeles Education Partnership, the Urban Education Partnership became one of the first education improvement organizations in Los Angeles, and has stayed at the forefront of the movement nationwide. The Partnership's mission is to help students in high-need schools improve their academic achievement by partnering with educators, parents and the community. The organization focuses its efforts in three areas that have consistently been demonstrated to positively impact student achievement: transforming secondary schools to create more effective teaching and learning environments, connecting parents and communities to schools to overcome learning barriers, and providing educational policy-makers the fact-based analyses they need to make appropriate decisions. Each year, the Partnership serves more than 2,500 educators and 75,000 students from pre-kindergarten through high school in high-poverty, multicultural communities.

http://www.urbanedpartnership.org