 The Need:
Indiana has the highest percentage of high school dropouts in the nation -- Kids Count 2006, The Annie E. Casey Foundation "The one million students who drop out of high school each year cost our nation more than $260 billion dollars. That's in lost wages, lost taxes, and lost productivity over their lifetimes...ยจ -- Margaret Spellings, U.S. Secretary of Education
What We're Doing About It:
Pacers Foundation supports the efforts of Indiana groups that help
- Struggling students to stay in school; and
- Out-of-school youth to re-engage in the learning.
As such, mentoring and/or tutoring programs, alternative schools and after-school programs with an emphasis on learning should consider applying. This does not mean, however, that we will not fund other types of organizations with a focus on youth education. It simply means that our priorities are to keep struggling students in school and to reengage out-of-school youth in the learning process.
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