A Tacoma where every child succeeds in school, career, and life.
2020 forced us to confront some of the harder truths about our work. It required us to leverage our influence as a community movement to connect students to virtual learning, to support families from a distance, and to address the deeply rooted racist systems impacting student access and success. See how we showed up in a year like no other.
We are living in an historic year, and we are still learning what the long-term impacts will be for Tacoma students. The 2020 Community Impact Report explores the latest data on student success and how community-wide participation will be key as we grapple with the aftermath of COVID-19.
The Fair Start of Kids Act would make early learning – including childcare, preschool, and programs for infants and toddlers – more affordable and accessible for families and more sustainable for providers, who are typically women of color.
The Foundation for Tacoma Students would like to share this opportunity to work in partnership and operationalize Juneteenth as a company paid holiday. We tenaciously believe that this acknowledgment is an important step toward our ongoing commitment to anti-racism
Gov. Inslee is calling for education related programs to be maintained – a noticeable divergence from last year’s conversation around program budget cuts. Legislators also introduced The Fair Start for Kids Act addressing the child care crisis.
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In 2010, just over half of Tacoma students (55%) were graduating. USA Today featured Tacoma schools under the shameful headline of "Dropout Factories." That's when the Tacoma community came together like never before. Together, we demanded a better way forward.
Build and strengthen Graduate Tacoma's community-wide movement to help every child achieve success from cradle to college and career. We align resources, data, goals, and partners
Today, the community-wide movement is more than 300 community partners strong from every neighborhood in our city. We are parents and educators, early learning and higher education, youth and community service, business and labor, civic and philanthropic, local government and communities of faith.
