We got an interview with Jon Roure, a specialist that works for College Bound Initiative. College Bound Initiative is a program that helps high school students get into colleges by placing guidance counselors in schools, organizing application boot camps and help teacher’s make their students college aware. We took a short tour of his offices and after we interviewed him in his office.
Today we met with Michelle Fine, author and expert. We went to her office at CUNY and interviewed her about pushouts, high school education and poverty. She told us about her time working in a NYC public school and how that influenced her career and what she was interested in.
We recently met with Brittney Lynch to get more information about LIFT. We discussed details about what her charity does and what makes it different from other charities. We are going to hold a toy drive to help with LIFT’s holiday fiesta on Dec 18. We have announced it in homeroom and I sent and email to remind our classmates. We are also going there to volunteer and maybe have a change to interview some people to get a better grasp on how education affects these people. I think it will be a great opportunity so that we can see these people as people, not as statistics.
We addressed postcards to people in Florida. We urged people to vote for amendment 4.
