June 2009 Volume 1, Issue 2
In This Issue
Book Fair
YPIE's Children
Family Story Power
Student Newspaper
YPS News
 
 
 
 
YPIE thanks the community for supporting last week's book fair. Dollars raised will go towards the purchase of books for all K-3rd grade classrooms in all Yonkers elementary schools through our YonkersReads! program. 
 
 
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Although the school year is coming to a close, Yonkers Partners In Education is actively working to ensure that our initiatives grow and strengthen in the next school year. To continue providing increased educational opportunities for Yonkers students, we have kicked off an ambitious fundraising campaign. We are seeking investors who want to support the educational journeys of the many children in Yonkers who lack opportunity and access to successfully achieve their goals. 
 
Using a mix of traditional and grass-roots marketing, as well as social networking technologies like Facebook and Twitter, YPIE is getting the word out. We need your help now, more than ever.
 
Take a look at our video and hear how Yonkers students are benefiting from our work. I ask you to consider that these students are perhaps the best investment that you can make!
 
Wendy Nadel
Executive Director
Yonkers Partners in Education
 
 
Save the Date: Oct. 29, 2009
 

YPIE Annual Benefit Gala

  
 
The Power of Family Stories
 
It's not often that parents and children have the opportunity to work side-by-side and learn at the same time. YPIE's Family Story Power, an innovative community-based reading and writing program, does just that - and this year it was expanded to seven different sites throughout Yonkers.  The children were so excited to learn and their families were thrilled to participate in this warm and supportive environment.
 
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Working on the Yonkers Student Grapevine Newspaper
 
Students from all seven Yonkers high schools had the opportunity this year to publish their own monthly newspaper, The Yonkers Student Grapevine, delivered as an insert to the YonkersRising paper.   
 
Read what Christien Jackson from Roosevelt and Maria Cristina Cruz from Saunders learned from this amazing experience and how so many other high school students have also become budding journalists.   
 
 
 
 
Yonkers Public Schools: Scholarship Success
This year, 2009 graduates from Yonkers high schools were offered close to $30,000,000 in scholarships to attend college -- $9,000,000 higher than what was achieved by the graduating class in 2008! These students have achieved academic success in high school, and now have the means to attend leading colleges and universities.

Going forward, YPIE's College Centers will help juniors and seniors gain access to even more college application and scholarship resources. Centers opened this year at Roosevelt, Riverside, and Lincoln High Schools and YPIE hopes to open Centers at the remaining high schools in the coming year.
 
Yonkers Partners in Education is an education fund that works in partnership with the public and private sectors to ensure that all students attending public school in Yonkers receive a high quality education that prepares them for work, college, and success in life.  
 
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