Advocacy Project Proposal

Is education a federal responsibility or merely a local matter? This question has been debated since the inception of the Department of Education in 1980, under the Carter Administration. While policy makers disagree on how the educational system should be administrated, both sides agree that serious reform needs to be implemented. Our current educational system is in a sordid state of affairs. Inner-city and poverty-stricken school districts are facing the greatest challenges within the current system. Retention is decreasing, students are not performing at acceptable levels, federal funding is being cut, ergo programs are being abolished, therefore retention is decreasing, students are not performing at acceptable levels, and federal funding continues to be cut.

I cannot offer a solution to the educational crisis, but I wish to address the issue of how local not-for-profit organizations can contribute to the alleviation of such seemingly insurmountable problems. For module one, I shall be doing a power point presentation advocating the creation and development of non-profit organizations in inner-city urban areas (ie; Detroit). I shall demonstrate the effectively of such organizations by presenting primary examples and evidence I have accumulated on the subject first hand.