NAACP

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NAACP

• EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
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MISSION STATEMENT

• The fundamental goal of the NAACP's education
  advocacy agenda is to provide all students
  access to quality education. The NAACP Education
  Department seeks to accomplish this goal through
  policy development, training, collaboration,
  negotiation, legislation, litigation, and
  agitation.

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The NAACP Education Department's resources are
focused on three major objectives

1. Preventing Racial Discrimination in Educational
   Programs and Services
2. Advancing Educational Excellence
3. Promoting an Equal Opportunity Education Agenda.

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The NAACP Education Department coordinates
efforts to annually meet the 3 previous
objectives.

• In order to meet these objectives, the NAACP set
  up 3 main goals through a nationwide emphasis on
  program development, capacity, building, and
  collaboration.
• The three main goals are as follows

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GOAL 1

• Empower students, parents and local advocates to
  assess their local schools, school districts,
  universities, and state educational agencies
  through data collection and the production of
  substantive research on key educational equity
  issues.

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GOAL 2

• Empower students, parents and local advocates
  to assist their local schools, school districts,
  universities and state educational agencies
  through training, and collaborative technical
  assistance designed to prevent discrimination in
  educational programs and services.

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GOAL 3

• Empower students, parents and local advocates to
  advance educational excellence through
  programmatic support and development based on
  sound research, strategic planning and strong
  collaborative networks.

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TO CONCLUDE

• The NAACP must address the important education
  issues affecting African American students with a
  strong emphasis on education advocacy, efforts
  at the local, state, and federal level. African
  American students rely on this department in
  order to be successful!

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NAACP EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

• PROGRAMS

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Scholarship Program

• The NAACP has taken a leading role in fighting to
  secure positive and equitable changes in
  educational institutions throughout
  the nation. In doing so, the NAACP
  annually offers 6 scholarships in which students
  can apply for. These scholarships are found at
• http//www.naacp.org/work/education/eduscholarship
  .shtml

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Back to School / Stay in School

• Program dedicated to providing students from
  elementary school to high school, with academic
  and social support.The program aims to enhance
  student success by reducing the absenteeism and
  dropout rate, providing a higher level of
  academic and cultural enrichment, increasing
  parental involvement and improving overall
  perceptions about public schools.

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Back to School/Stay in School

• To learn more about this program please visit
• http//www.naacp.org/work/education/BackToSchool.s
  html

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ACT-SO

• The ACT-SO program centers around the dedication
  and commitment of community volunteers and
  business leaders to serve as mentors and coaches
  to promote academic and artistic excellence among
  African-American students.

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ACT-SO

• For more information on who sponsors, who
  founded, who is eligible and the benefits of
  ACT-SO, please visit
• http//www.naacp.org/work/actso/Factsheet.shtml

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Brown vs. The Board of Education

• Learn more about this 1954 Historic case between
  Brown and the Board of Education at
• http//www.naacp.org/BvBE/browncourtopinion.shtml

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Links to NAACP Partners for Excellence in Public
Education

• American Federation of Teachers
• http//www.aft.org/
• National Education Association
• http//www.nea.org/
• People for the American Way Foundation
• http//www.pfawf.org/
• Message from the Director http//www.naacp.org/wor
  k/education/edudirector.shtml