RESOURCES FOR INNER CITY CHILDREN

RICH is dedicated to providing high-quality educational resources, free of charge, to inner city schools in Washington, D.C. RICH operates from a pedagogical foundation that the greater a student’s academic need, the more important the experience of the teacher. RICH’s professional instructors have an average experience level of twenty years.

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SATURDAY ACADEMY EXPANDS

Buoyed by the second highest test score increases of any high school in Washington, the Chávez Schools have given RICH the green light to expand the Saturday Academy programs to include English and thesis (term papers) at the Capitol Hill and Parkside campuses. In 2009, nearly twice as many tenth graders at the Capitol Hill campus scored at “proficient” (grade level) or better on the District of Columbia Comprehensive Assessment System (DC-CAS) tests in reading and math as in 2008.

What if I told you that Washington, D.C., is known as a dropout factory, with just 49% of our youth graduating from high school and fully half of these dropouts ending up in jail?

Resources for Inner city CHildren wants every student to achieve academic success, graduate from high school, become a productive adult and live up to his or her potential.

This year, RICH's seventeen education professionals will provide over 2,000 hours of instruction and mentoring, free of charge, to the students and teachers of the Maya Angelou Public Charter Schools and the César Chávez Public Charter School for Public Policy. Encouraged by the positive results in these inner city school communities, RICH is committed to expanding these services in the coming years.

RICH is also a source of information for all Washington-area residents, professionals and non-professionals alike, who want to advance the educational development of inner city children. RICH also coordinates with organizations that provide tutoring services, psychoeducational testing, college counseling, advocacy, occupational therapy and other educational resources.

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Participate in our Adopt-a-Student program and receive updates on your student’s progress throughout the year. Or donate to our annual fund and help support RICH’s mission to increase high school graduation rates. All donations are tax-deductible. Learn More …

RICH STUDENTS EXCEL ON TESTS
Sixty-three percent of the 10th graders at the Cesar Chávez School-Capitol Hill scored “proficient” or better on the recently released DC-CAS (Comprehensive Assessment System) tests. These students have been attending RICH’s Saturday Math Academy at Chávez for the past two years. Only 32% of the previous tenth-grade class scored at “proficient” or better. RICH’s Saturday English Academy was also partly responsible for 57% of the 10th graders this year scoring “proficient” or better on the reading DC-CAS, compared to 31% for the 10th grade in 2008. The two increases in reading and math were two of the three largest increases of all the high schools in Washington, D.C.

RICH DIRECTOR ON THE RADIO
RICH Director Paul Penniman recently taped a half hour radio interview for Parents' Perspective, a nationally syndicated, weekly radio show. Read more.