The Great Schools Partnership Charitable Trust

“The form 990 is prepared and provided to the organization's president and executive committee for review and approval. The underlying detailed financial information used in the preparation of the form 990 is reported to the governing body quarterly.”

“Compensation for the top management official (president) is determined by the governing body in open meeting. The amount of compensation is negotiated and based on factors including compensation paid to top management of similar organizations located in the region. The governing body votes to approve the compensation and minutes are kept to substantiate the action taken.”

“Documents made available upon written request.”

“Community schools - the organization directly operates knox county's community schools initiative. The community schools initiative is a strategy for using public schools as a hub for organizing community resources to improve neighborhood health and safety and student academics. Services include: family, partner and community engagement; expanded learning opportunities; health and social support; youth development activities; tutoring and academic enrichment; and school facilities open for extended hours. This year, the organization operated the program at thirteen knox county public schools and will begin servicing an additional three schools next year. With parent, neighborhood and partner input and involvement, community schools can be a positive center of influence to benefit students, families, and the surrounding community. Research indicates these benefits include improved student learning, health, and attendance; stronger family engagement; an improved school climate; and safer neighborhoods. In knox county, students who participate in the afterschool enrichment programming at community schools show accelerated rates of academic growth and fewer absences when compared to their peers in the same school.”

“Parents as teachers - this operational initiative is an evidence-based home visitation program that helps parents become better educators for their infants and children. Parents are a child's most important teachers, and the first three years of life most critical in any child's education. Through this program, specially trained staff conduct monthly home visits with at risk families, conduct group education sessions, and provide health and development screening and intervention to promote children's success in kindergarten. In fy19, the program served 240 families with 300 children. A longitudinal study shows that that by third grade, students whose parents participated in pat record higher math and reading/language arts scores (3.73 and 4.19 nce respectively, alpha less than or equal to 0.05) than similar children whose parents do not participate in pat.”

“Project grad - this operational grant program funds activities of project grad knoxville (grad), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, in furtherance of its mission. Grad supports a quality public school education for heart of knoxville students that equips and encourages youth to graduate from high school and to succeed in college or technical school. This is accomplished through an intentional and holistic k-16 approach providing: academic support, social services, classroom management, college access and parental engagement. Project grad has partnered with knox county schools (kcs), great schools partnership and the community for more than a decade to increase the number of students from challenging circumstances who complete high school and higher education. The kcs/grad partnership was established with three goals: increased academic achievement, increased high school graduation rate, increased college going rate. As of april 2017, 298 (47%) of those pgk scholarship recipients who enrolled in a post-secondary program also completed their program (counting students from the 2005-2010 cohorts). 83% of pgk scholarship recipients have entered higher education. 72% of those completers have graduated from a 4-year institution. Of those completers, 21% are first generation students.”

“The organization also has the following on-going program activities: operational initiatives include shakespeare in shades, codetn, and thank- a-teacher. Operational grants includes teacherprenuer. Funded grants include secondary tutoring centers, 2019 tutoring curriculum development, kcs teacher development, and implementation science work.”