Roadmap to Educational Excellence/Mapa al Éxito Escolar

LAYC has been awarded a multi-year grant to implement a US Department of Education High-Quality Supplemental Educational Services and After-School Partnerships Demonstration Program. LAYC is one only five organizations and school district partnerships in the nation to be awarded this prestigious and competitive grant opportunity. The demonstration award will expand and enhance LAYC’s work in the area of Supplementary Educational Services and 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

The new national demonstration model, Roadmap to Educational Excellence / Mapa al Exíto Escolar, will be based at McFarland Middle School in the District of Columbia. Through academic and personalized individual enrichment, community service, family strengthening, and counseling, LAYC will insure that all eighth grade students at McFarland successfully transition to high school prepared to graduate and pursue post-secondary education.

As a national partnership demonstration grant, LAYC will be participating in an external evaluation of its model. If successful, LAYC anticipates that one day its Road Map to Educational Excellence will be replicated at public middle schools across the country.

The Roadmap project has also received support from AT&T.