Miami Beach Senior High College Tour 2016. Go Hi Tides!
The Education Fund is making a difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of children by working side-by-side with the private sector, enlisting their support to improve our public schools, and bringing excellence to public education.
This work reaches all 470 schools and all 22,000+ teachers and educators in Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
The Education Fund makes a difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of students:
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$78 million raised for public schools
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257,274 harvest bags sent home with families served by Food Forests for Schools
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10,500+ computers provided to student homes, plus 500 in classrooms.
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1.2 million trilingual Parent Resource Guides distributed
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$3 million in individual classroom grants to help teachers foster student achievement
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34% increase in college enrollment attained as part of a national demonstration project
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$22.5 million in free supplies for classrooms
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$1.1 million for public schools' visual arts programs
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228,000 hours of one-on-one tutoring for students struggling with reading
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4,216 hours of in-class mentoring for first-year teachers
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$820,000 in grants for dropout-prevention programs
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$3.4 million leveraged for one of the nation's most comprehensive leadership development programs for secondary school administrators
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5,300+ classroom projects funded by Teacher Grants
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39,700+ teacher visits to our free supplies warehouse
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211 tons of computer hardware diverted from Miami-Dade landfills
