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.”

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.

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:

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.

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.

GOAL 3GOAL 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.

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

NAACP EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

PROGRAMS

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

Back to School / Stay in Back to School / Stay in SchoolSchool

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

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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 EducationAmerican 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/work/education/edudirector.shtml