David Stern

New Grants Support Small Schools

The Career Academy Support Network (CASN), housed at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education, has received two grants totaling $750,000 to support the establishment of small schools within high schools. “The goal of the grants is to boost UC and CSU eligibility in schools that traditionally have not sent many students to these or other colleges,” said David Stern, the co-principal investigator for the grants.

The grants combine $500,000 from the James Irvine Foundation and $250,000 from the Walter S. Johnson Foundation to fund the effort over a two-and-a-half-year period.

CASN will work closely with the campus’s Center for Educational Outreach and the University of California Office of the President to provide more accurate and up-to-date information to schools to help them advise students to become eligible for UC. The grant will also enable CASN’s experienced coaches to assist high schools to form smaller learning communities within their schools. CASN staff have been involved with many small learning communities that have successfully prepared students for college. The new grant will extend that approach to entire high schools that are regrouping students and teachers into academies or other small learning environments.

 

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