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Thanks to your advocacy, we secured $3m in state funding for the Ninth Grade Success Initiative last year! As a result, more than 68 schools serving more than 16,000 students are engaged in powerful work to transform student trajectories through the proven Ninth Grade Success approach. 

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Fulfilling the promise: 2024 Academic Acceleration Policy Process Report

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Stand is committed to reducing the harmful impacts of juvenile legal system involvement on young people’s opportunities. We work with youth advocates statewide to eliminate and render uncollectable all fines and fees charged to young people moving through the juvenile legal system.

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Students who pass all their classes at the end of their 9th-grade year are as much as four times more likely to graduate from high school than their off-track peers. Stand for Children’s Center for High School Success partners with high schools committed to becoming communities where all students excel academically and race and socio-economic status do not predict success.

OUR WORK AND impact

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9th Grade Success
School Partners

100

Hours of Parent Workshops Per Year

12,469

Messages Sent to Lawmakers in 2022

OUR VISION

HIGH SCHOOL
SUCCESS

We must build collective power towards insisting that our education system achieve better graduation outcomes and post-secondary achievement for BIPOC youth and youth who have received special education services, experienced houselessness or poverty, navigated the foster system, or experienced incarceration.

RESTORATIVE EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE

We must reduce the harmful impacts of juvenile legal system involvement on young people’s opportunities and eliminate pipelines from K-12 education that push young people into carceral systems. Our efforts to build community-based solutions will be led by those closest to the challenge.

SAFE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

We must create safe and equitable learning environments that cultivate belonging and affirm students’ intersecting identities. We will build the capacity of young people, families, and educators to engage in local policymaking, elections, and advocacy opportunities while deepening our community partnerships.