The need for a higher-skilled workforce is real. by Gary Kaplan, JFYNetWorks Executive Director The March state employment report (released in late April) focuses on two concerns: weak job growth and a shortage of skilled workers. Job growth waxes and wanes from month to month, but the skilled worker shortage
‘Equitable Access’ a Priority Earlier this month a Boston Globe editorial gave a good overview of the state’s new early college initiative. As the editorial points out, the great challenge will be to include low-income students, whose rates of college completion lag far behind more affluent students. The resolution that
MARCH 2017 Edition JFYNet Partner School Spotlight Sometimes We Need to Be Reminded… … that our schools are full of great kids, hard-working and creative teachers, overworked and underappreciated administrators, and effective programs. Read more about some of these outstanding people, schools and communities in our New Series: Spotlighting JFYNetWorks
JFYNetWorks board and staff enjoyed the company of House Speaker Robert DeLeo at a recent event in Boston. JFY Chairman Otis Gates and the Speaker shared reminiscences of their mutual alma mater,#BostonLatinSchool. Left to Right: Otis Gates, JFY Board Chairman; Susan Dunnigan, Board Secretary; House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo; Kevin
JFYNet Partner School Spotlight By Patti Parisella, JFYNetWorks Fiscal Director Our #JFYNetPartnerSchool spotlight series features stories about our partner schools and the good work they do for students and their communities. What do you think of when you hear the words “college and career readiness”? Do you think of pathways
How to Achieve Diversity in Boston and Massachusetts Business by Gary Kaplan, Executive Director of JFYNetWorks and David Driscoll, former Massachusetts Commissioner of Education. | Originally published by the Boston Business Journal on 11/11/16. See the original post here. Speaking to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce last month, Mayor
The domino effect for HS students Only 9% of low-income students earn a college degree. YOU can change that in 2017.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Patti Parisella JFYNetWorks 617-338-0815 x 222 PParisella@jfynet.org JFYNetWorks joins the Global #GivingTuesday Movement pledges to prepare urban youth for successful college entry without the need for remedial courses. Boston, MA November 23, 2016 – JFYNetWorks has joined #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that harnesses the
It’s Time for Madison Park To Get Some Respect by Gary Kaplan The Boston Globe Magazine’s recent article on vocational education (School of Work, 10/2/16) came down like a ton of raw concrete on Boston’s Madison Park Technical Vocational High School. One commentator blamed Madison Park for “vocational education’s tarnished
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