Word: citystep
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...We’ve been giving CityStep a priority over other things we might do,” Sercombe says. “I feel confident in doing this because I’ve been able to see over a period of time that this program is purposeful, meaningful, and has already proven to be effective...
...Despite the participating schools’ endorsement of CityStep over the years, there have been grumblings about the allocation of the program’s resources. Only 100 of roughly 1,500 students from grades five to eight benefit from CityStep, and in the past few years, the schools with which the organization has collaborated include Graham and Parks and Cambridgeport—two of the district’s financially well-off schools with high performance ratings on the MCAS...
...don’t want to hide the fact that there are people in the CityStep company who aspire to [work] in the less privileged schools,” Junior says, weighing her words carefully. “And I personally would like to see CityStep go in that direction...
...Junior declined to discuss how CityStep would transform that hope into reality, saying that the organization’s board members have yet to brainstorm ideas about expanding into schools with more underprivileged students...
...Though socioeconomic need is a factor that CityStep leaders would like to seriously consider in selecting schools for each year’s curriculum, Junior says inertia—building on existing relationships with classroom teachers—is a primary reason CityStep continues to work with the same schools through the years...