2. NAACP EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Click here Click here to return to the main page.

3. MISSION STATEMENT “The fundamental goal of the NAACP's education advocacy agenda is to provide all students access to quality education. The NAACP Education Department seeks to accomplish this goal through policy development, training, collaboration, negotiation, legislation, litigation, and agitation.”

4. The NAACP Education Department's resources are focused on three major objectives: 1. Preventing Racial Discrimination in Educational Programs and Services 2. Advancing Educational Excellence 3. Promoting an Equal Opportunity Education Agenda.

5. The NAACP Education Department coordinates efforts to annually meet the 3 previous objectives. In order to meet these objectives, the NAACP set up 3 main goals through a nationwide emphasis on program development, capacity, building, and collaboration. The three main goals are as follows:

6. GOAL 1 Empower students, parents and local advocates to assess their local schools, school districts, universities, and state educational agencies through data collection and the production of substantive research on key educational equity issues.

7. GOAL 2 Empower students, parents and local advocates to assist their local schools, school districts, universities and state educational agencies through training, and collaborative technical assistance designed to prevent discrimination in educational programs and services.

8. GOAL 3 Empower students, parents and local advocates to advance educational excellence through programmatic support and development based on sound research, strategic planning and strong collaborative networks.

9. TO CONCLUDE  The NAACP must address the important education issues affecting African American students with a strong emphasis on education advocacy, efforts at the local, state, and federal level. African American students rely on this department in order to be successful!

10. NAACP EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PROGRAMS

11. Scholarship Program  The NAACP has taken a leading role in fighting to secure positive and equitable changes in educational institutions throughout the nation. In doing so, the NAACP annually offers 6 scholarships in which students can apply for. These scholarships are found at:  http://www.naacp.org/work/education/ eduscholarship.shtml http://www.naacp.org/work/education/ eduscholarship.shtml

12. Back to School / Stay in School Program dedicated to providing students from elementary school to high school, with academic and social support.The program aims to enhance student success by reducing the absenteeism and dropout rate, providing a higher level of academic and cultural enrichment, increasing parental involvement and improving overall perceptions about public schools. Program dedicated to providing students from elementary school to high school, with academic and social support.The program aims to enhance student success by reducing the absenteeism and dropout rate, providing a higher level of academic and cultural enrichment, increasing parental involvement and improving overall perceptions about public schools.

13. Back to School/Stay in School To learn more about this program please visit: http://www.naacp.org/work/education/ BackToSchool.shtml

14. ACT-SO The ACT-SO program centers around the dedication and commitment of community volunteers and business leaders; to serve as mentors and coaches to promote academic and artistic excellence among African-American students.

15. ACT-SO For more information on who sponsors, who founded, who is eligible and the benefits of ACT-SO, please visit: http://www.naacp.org/work/actso/Factsheet.shtml

16. Brown vs. The Board of Education Learn more about this 1954 Historic case between Brown and the Board of Education at: http://www.naacp.org/BvBE/browncourtopinion.shtml

17. Links to NAACP Partners for Excellence in Public Education  American Federation of Teachers  http://www.aft.org/ http://www.aft.org/  National Education Association  http://www.nea.org/ http://www.nea.org/  People for the American Way Foundation  http://www.pfawf.org/ http://www.pfawf.org/  Message from the Director http://www.naacp.org/work/education/ed udirector.shtml http://www.naacp.org/work/education/ed udirector.shtml