Step Up for Students - Florida Inc.

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

Oct 15, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$311,087,167

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

School development and student learning:step up for students is helping strengthen the program's partnership schools by offering free professional development through step up's office of student learning. This department's largest initiative, success partners, is a professional development program designed to create closer relationships between parents, teachers and administrators and students. The premise of the initiative is based on the benefits of strengthening the family-school partnership for the well-being of the child. Schools that work closely with parents often have high student achievement and quality programs. Ten schools in hillsborough county piloted this program during the 2011-12 school year, (continued on schedule o)17 more schools came aboard for the 2012-13 school year, and more than 120 are expected to participate throughout the state for the 2013-14 school year. The capstone of success partners is an interactive learning compact, designed to give teachers, families and students a way to utilize the florida state standards. With the compact, each party agrees to support one another for the success of the student. These standards are a national initiative of uniform academic benchmarks adopted in 45 states, four territories and the district of columbia for grades kindergarten through 12 to ensure that students are ready for careers and college.

Activity 3

Communications, policy and public affairs:each scholarship is intended to provide a low-income student in florida with a viable learning option that can make a difference in his or her educational life. Toward that objective, step up is building tools to assess academic progress in a robust way. The state already collects standardized test scores every year for all students in grades 3-10, and in its most recent report, for 2011-12 school year, determined that scholarship students achieved the same academic gains in reading and math as students of all income levels nationally. Step up is attempting to go further. In 2012-13, it pulled together student information (continued on schedule o)across 10 years and used it to construct a data warehouse. The warehouse will serve as a storehouse for all types of academic and demographic information and allow step up policy analysts to mine the data for a variety of academic indicators, including test scores, graduation rates and attrition rates. The purpose is to inform scholarship parents, participating schools, the general public and policymakers about the academic progress of scholarship students and shed light on pathways to academic improvement.

Filer

EIN

59-3649371