-: The top three goals for the Gear Up
at IDEA Public Schools.
One is to ensure that students and parents
are well-informed about the financial aid process.
Also, specifically targeting financial literacy
to help them become aware of all the topics and themes
that are gonna come up once they start applying
for financial aid in their senior year.
So, that's one.
The second major theme is to increase college acceptances,
and specifically targeting schools that have
higher college graduation rates.
So, one of the things that we've seen in the past is
we've had six years of 100% of our students matriculating
into college, however, now we're gonna start focus
specifically on the completion rates of those students,
so one of the big goals of our project is to ensure
that we're targeting schools that students are able
not to attend, but also graduate.
And thirdly, the other goal of our project is to ensure
that our students are socially aware of some of the issues
that they might encounter in terms
of completing their college degree.