Spartanburg Academic Movement

“Members of the governing board are provided a copy of the tax return for review and comment before the return is finalized and submitted.”

“Dr. Stockwell's compensation is determined by majority vote of the board of directors at their annual meeting.”

“Sheryl booker's compensation is determined by majority vote at the board of director's annual meeting. Sheryl booker's husband, dr. Russell booker, abstains from voting on this matter.”

“Governing documents are available for public inspection at the organization's location during normal business hours. Seven days' prior notification is requested for inspection of documents.”

“Spartanburg academic movement is an "all-in" partnership of schools and colleges, businesses, governments, foundations, faith communities and individuals across spartanburg county in pursuit of high levels of educational achievement. The collective mission is to measure academic accomplishment that matters, cradle to career, set achievement targets that escalate annually, align networks in pursuit of these targets, and report progress with persistent regularity.”

“The history and a detailed description of sam's program accomplishments are available on the organization's website: www.learnwithsam.org. Sam is pursuing six core indicators of achievement - kindergarten readiness, third grade reading, eighth grade math, college/career-ready high school graduation, postsecondary enrollment, and postsecondary persistence and completion. The sam data team has established three-year rolling targets for most of these stages, leading toward achievement of the 40/30 challenge, the ultimate target metric of sam. Collaborative action networks for each of the core indicators operate at each of these learning stages, and sam is working with its more than 150 partners across sectors to address educational attainment in spartanburg county. At each of its six stages of learning, sam assembles "collaborative action networks" drawing expert practioners and scholars together from across the county to identify factors, or contributing indicators, they believe influence success or failure. The most promising factors are subjected to cotrolled pilot testing with results influencing the adoption of widespread implementation. Outcomes include, for example, county-wide summer "reading camps" for rising second graders in poverty resulting in substantial performance increases from spring to fall assessments, and a county-wide attendance agenda in half-day pre-kindergarten, which sam has found predisposes attendance persistence in kindergarten and beyond. In addition, bachelor's degree attainment rates have increased from 19 percent to 23 percent.”

“Interest earned on accounts allows spartanburg academic movement to pursue the organization's goals.”

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