Hartford Public Schools Survey: Partners In Education

PARTNERSHIPS THAT SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE HARTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS SCHOOL YEAR 2002-2003 APPENDIX B

PARTNERSHIPS THAT SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION

School Year 2002-2003

HARTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS Robert Henry, Superintendent of Schools

Compiled by April Goff Brown Goff Brown Associates, LLC 77 Montrose Street Hartford, CT 06106 June 8, 2003

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section Page # Introduction 1 Key Findings 5 Comparisons to the 1995-1996 Survey 6 Tables: Partners by Schools 8 Section I: Elementary Schools 12 Section II: Middle Schools 45 Section III: High Schools 53 Section IV: System-Wide 60 Appendices 65 List of Partners 66 Survey Format 76

INTRODUCTION

In October 1997, a report entitled 1996 Private Sector Funding Supporting Hartford School-Age Children was published that identified, through corporations and local foundations, a picture of cash and in-kind support from 24 private-sector funders for Hartford students. The report indicated that more than $6.9 million were given to Hartford Public Schools and community-based organizations as well as $375,000 in in-kind services.

In April 2003, Superintendent Robert Henry wanted to update this information for the 2002-2003 school year. With funding from the Traveler’s Foundation, the consultant who prepared the earlier report was secured to conduct this survey. Unlike the survey of 1997 that obtained information directly from 24 funders, this survey requested information from the school principals and Hartford Public Schools’ central office staff. Principals indicated almost $10 million dollars of value in partnerships for the current school year with almost $3 million coming from the private sector business community.

This report does not intend to capture all of the funding in Hartford for community-based programs that support Hartford school children. Several agencies provide services in community locations and they are not identified in this report. Principals also would not know the funding amounts that non-profit agencies receive for their programs, thus the actual value of some non-profit programs is most likely underrepresented. What we can say with this report, that Hartford Public School principals report at least this amount of service and partnerships for Hartford Public School students.

This report documents major increases in partnerships with the Hartford Public Schools, reflecting the extensive efforts of the school district to build partnerships with business and community. The value of partnerships at the elementary school level have increased sixteen times since 1995-1996. The value of partnerships at both the middle and high school levels each has increased over four times.

Private sector business partnerships include the major corporations in the Greater Hartford area, as well as small and medium size businesses, including local chain stores. Examples of the partnerships captured in this survey include:

 Numerous small, medium and large businesses provide a range of career related services, including job shadowing, internships, classroom visits, and mentors.

 The Hartford has adopted three schools (West Middle, Quirk and Hartford Public) and provides funding to community-based groups to serve students in these schools, as well as direct funding for academic support programs.

 MassMutual provides $250,000 annually in scholarships for Hartford Public School graduates. Mass Mutual has also initiated a school improvement project with Annie Fisher School called Fostering Achievement Through Education, that includes teacher training.

 Engineers from United Technologies provide countless hours working with students at Hartford Public High School in the Robotics First program

 Aetna and SBC/SNET donated over 55 computers to Fox Middle School.

 Traveler’s, Fleet Bank, Sovereign Bank, Advest, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup all provide support to the Academy of Finance at Weaver High School.

 Aetna, the Greater Hartford Jaycees and Tony March Foundation provide support of $110,000 for the health clinic at Weaver.

 WDRC Radio worked with students from McDonough School culminating in the students visiting the studio and creating and recording a jingle.

 The Third Age Initiative of Leadership Greater Hartford developed a peer mentoring/tutoring/leadership program that trains Fox Middle School students as “Readers Are Leaders” who, in turn, read to students at Martin Luther King School.

 MEGA Education, founded by Atty. Jeffrey Dressler, provides awards and incentives for students in several schools.

 Staff from the CT Department of Education have adopted Parkville School, provided tutors, holiday visits and celebrations and storybooks for students.

These are only a few of the types of partnerships documented in this report. These examples serve to illustrate the types of support provided by the community, at every level.

Hartford, as a city, is fortunate to have a private sector which not only recognizes education as a priority for the future, but continues to contribute real dollars and time to support education.

METHODOLOGY

A survey format was prepared and distributed in April 2003 to all principals and several central office departments to identify cash and non-cash partnerships within the system. Follow-up phone calls were placed to every principal to obtain more detailed information in order to quantify the information. The estimated values are based on calculations of the information provided by the school district personnel and do not necessarily reflect the full value of the partnership from a funder’s perspective.

Standard rates were developed with the Superintendent’s office for each service type, based on experience in developing and operating community programs. These standardized rates do not necessarily represent the actual value of the services. For example, tutoring services were estimated at $20 per hour. However, many professionals who serve as tutors earn a higher hourly wage, thus the value that might be reported by the company would be higher than the value represented in this report. The table below indicates the standard rates employed in calculating the estimated values in this report:

Item Value/Calculation Adult Tutors $20/hour Adult Mentors $25/hour Student Tutors $12/hour Snacks $4 per student per time Field Trips $250 per trip, buses only Materials for student use $5 per student Visits from companies Use $25 per hour for each adult visitor Career Fairs and College Fairs $500 per company or college that participates Job Shadowing $25 per hour per student visitor Summer Employment 6 weeks @ $6.50 per hour per student for 5 hour days Internships $6.50 per hour Summer Camp, morning Ratio of 1:10 students: teacher, 3 hours per day, four days per week, $25/hour for 6 weeks Summer Camp, afternoons Ratio of 1:10 students: teachers, 4 hours per day four days per week, plus 6 hours on Fridays @ $15/hour, plus $250 bus trip for 6 weeks

Partners were categorized into several types:  Business – includes corporations and small and medium size for profit companies.  Agency – includes non-profit organizations, including hospitals  Faith Communities – includes churches, synagogues  Higher Education – includes colleges and universities  Other – includes suburban schools, civic associations and groups, foundations, city and state government offices and individuals

Unlike the 1995-96 survey, this survey captured federal and state dollars for non-entitlement programs such as the Family Resource Centers, 21st Century Learning Centers and priority district after-school programs. It should be noted that the non-profit organizations listed as partners for both Family Resource Centers and 21st Century Learning Centers provide services through sub-contract with the Hartford Public Schools. The dollar amounts listed for these two programs do not necessarily reflect the amount of money provided through the non-profit partner, but is generally the federal and state dollars provided to Hartford Public Schools for the purposes of these two program types. The exception is the amounts listed for the Family Resource centers operated by the Village for Families and Children, where other agency funds and private grants have been obtained to supplement the contracted amount.

A note of appreciation is given to all school personnel who provided information for the surveys as well as to some funders and providers who contributed information on large items, such as the Family Resource Centers and after-school programs.

KEY FINDINGS

Every school has partnerships. The Sport Sciences Academy and Fox Middle School report the highest number of partnerships with 40 and 31 respectively. However, there are multiple unlisted partners that provide services through the Career Centers at the high schools that are not recorded individually.

Partnership estimates total $9,961,755 for the 2003-2003 school year. Of this, 14.5% is in cash grants and 85.5% is in in-kind services.

Partners span the breadth of the community, and include several suburban groups and faith-based communities. Principals report 61 private sector corporate partners, 84 not-for-profit agencies, 18 faith-based communities, 8 institutions of higher education and a total of 48 civic groups, government agencies, foundations and others all working with students in the school system.

Tutoring services have almost doubled since the 1995-1996 school year.

There are over 1364 people providing tutoring services at a value of over $1.6 million dollars.

There are at least 400 individuals serving as mentors to Hartford Public School students at an estimated value of $281,050. Couple this with the number of adults serving as tutors, there are approximately 1,764 people in one-to-one relationships with Hartford Public School students. These numbers do not include the relationships developed through the high school career centers.

Thirty-seven different agencies and programs provided extended day programs, which include non-tutoring programs, cultural and enrichment programs and the 21st Century Learning Centers. Four schools (West Middle, Rawson, Clark, and Burns) report 78.8% of the estimated value of the extended day elementary school partnerships. Only seven elementary schools report no extended day programs.

COMPARISONS TO THE 1995-1996 SURVEY

In the 1995-1996 Survey… In the 2002-2003 Survey… 11 elementary schools, all three middle school 20 elementary school principals, one middle and all three high schools reported a total of 12 school principal and all four high school private sector corporate partners principals report having a total of 46 corporate partners

16 private sector partners were identified as 63 private sector partners in 27 schools were providing either cash grants or in-kind services identified as well as 83 non-profit agencies, 18 to 22 schools faith-based communities, 9 higher education institutions, and 48 other partners (i.e., schools, civic groups, and government agencies)

A total of cash and in-kind funding to Elementary school principals report elementary schools was $391,632., accounting partnerships of $5,831,043 or 58.5% of the for 30% of the school-based funding. Five partnerships. Five schools report almost half elementary schools received 82% of the cash (49.3%) of the values in partnerships and in-kind services directly to elementary (Betances, Burns, King, SAND, and West schools (West Middle-24%, Burns- 24%, Wish Middle). This is more than 14 times the – 14%, McDonough – 11% and Dwight – 9%). amount seven years ago!

$248,180 or 19% of cash and in-kind funding Middle school principals report partnerships of supported middle schools with over half going $1,181,243 or 11.9% of the partnerships, with to South Middle School Fox Middle having 31 partners.. This is almost five times the amount seven years ago!

$222,933 or 17% of cash and in-kind funding High school principals report 22.8% or supported high schools with almost 70% at 2,277,346 in partnerships at the high schools. Hartford Public High School, 30% to Weaver There is a more equalized allocation of and 1% to Bulkeley partnerships with HPHS having $1,029,000 (45.7%), Weaver having $569,550 (25%);

Bulkeley having $391,230 (17.1%) and Sport Sciences Academy having $117,650 (5.2%). This is more than ten times the amount seven years ago!

Most of the partnerships at the high school level focus on career development through the career centers and career academies

In the 1995-1996 Survey… In the 2002-2003 Survey… 31% of funding supported academic 17.2% supports tutoring programs for a total of instruction, including tutoring $1,710,389. An additional $138,455 supports classroom visits and field trips as educational enhancements

71% of funding to the schools was in cash 14.5% was reported as cash grants with 85.5% grants and 29% was in in-kind services reported as in-kind contributions of people, materials, and equipment. It should be noted that the 1995-1996 survey was unable to capture in-kind services to the For private sector business partnerships, 40.4% Hartford Public Schools of the partnerships are through cash grants with 59.6% as contributions of people, equipment, and materials.

EXPLANATION FOR TABLES 1 THROUGH 3

Table 1 indicates the total number of partnerships at each school as well as a break out of private sector business partners. Several partners are at more than one school, therefore the cumulative total for partners will not add up. The accurate number of business partners is 61of 218 partners in total or 28% of the partnerships .

The totals do not necessarily total across each row as there are instances where the partner provides both cash and non-cash services to the school. An accurate accounting of cash vs. non-cash partners is as follows: 42 partners that donated cash grants 218 partners that provided in-kind and donated services

Table 2 indicates the total partnerships at the elementary, idle, high and system levels as well as the value of the private sector business partnerships.

Table 3 specifies, for private sector business partnerships, the difference between cash donations and other donations.

Table 4 specifics, for all other partners, the differences between cash and non-cash donations.

Table 5 further delineates the types of partners at each school as follows: Business = private sector for profit; small, medium and large companies Agency = non profit community-based agencies Faith –based = churches Higher Education = colleges and universities Other = civic groups, associations, schools, foundations, government entities There cumulative totals for this table do not add up as several partners are in more than one school, thus would be counted more than once.

An accurate total of the categories of partners is as follows: 61 private sector business 83 non profit agencies 18 faith based communities 8 institutions of higher education 48 other

A full list of partners, by category, is found in Appendix A starting on page 63.

TABLE 1: NUMBER OF PARTNERS PER SCHOOL WITH ESTIMATED VALUES

School Total Estimated Private Estimated Number Value Sector Value of of Business Business Partners Partners Barnard Brown 6 51,080 1 200 Batchelder 4 229,100 1 1,200 Betances 13 412,974 5 8,150 Breakthrough Magnet 10 19,120 3 3,000 Burns 12 747,254 2 83,400 Burr 3 19,050 0 0 Clark 5 337,990 0 0 Dwight 6 113,900 3 64,500 Fisher 7+ 224,561 1+ 35,500 MD Fox 11 207,616 1 2,500 Hartford Transitional Learning Academy 12 12,950 9 4,250 Hooker 5 267,583 1 37,700 Kennelly 7 99,479 2 2,000 King 6 434,545 0 0 Kinsella 6 33,069 0 0 McDonough 9 63,865 1 1,950 Milner 9 50,150 1 1,000 Moylan 10 51,832 3 16,000 Naylor 3 58,600 0 0 Parkville 7 355,355 0 0 Rawson 2 229,461 0 0 Sanchez 7 244,832 1 29,000 SAND 17 479,583 4 2,890 Simpson-Waverly 12 35,620 0 0 Twain 9 177,560 1 240 Noah Webster 3 37,500 0 0

West Middle 23 735,014 4 228,730 Wish 8 101,400 3 32,800 Fox Middle 31 253,104 12 48,880 Hartford Magnet Middle School 10 407,655 0 0 Quirk Middle 8 290,834 1 25,000 South Middle 5 229,650 0 0 Bulkeley High 11+ 391,230 8+ 207,580 Hartford Public 5 1,157,000 3 1,029,000 Sport Sciences Academy 40 159,566 19 117,650 Weaver High 15+ 569,550 9+ 357,950 School to Work Office 14+ 264,775 11+ 264,775 Other system-Wide 14 672,123 7 366,838 TOTALS 218 9,961,755 61 2,972,683

TABLE 2: PARTNERSHIPS BY SCHOOL LEVELS

Level Total Value of Value of Business % of Overall Partnerships Partners Partnerships Elementary 5,831,043 555,010 9.5% Middle 1,181,243 73,880 6.3% High 2,277,346 1,712,180 75.2% System 672,123 506,613 79.2% TOTALS 9,961,755 2,847,683 40%

TABLE 3: BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS CASH VS. NON-CASH

Level Value of Cash Non-Cash % % Non Business Cash Cash Partners Elementary 555,010 107,825 447,185 19.4% 80.6% Middle 73,880 150 73,730 0.2% 99.8% High 1,712,180 789.250 922,930 46.1% 53.9% System 506,613 254,038 252,575 50.1% 49.9% TOTALS 2,847,683 1,151,263 1,696,420 40.4% 59.6%

TABLE 4: OTHER PARTNERSHIPS CASH VS. NON-CASH

Level Value of Other Cash Non-Cash % % Non Partnerships Cash Cash

Elementary 5,276,033 41,940 5,234,093 0.8% 99.2% Middle 1,107,363 150,400 956,963 13.6% 86.4% High 565,166 3,000 562,166 0.5% 99.5% System 165,510 95,000 70,510 57.4% 42.6% TOTALS 7,114,072 290,340 6,823,732 4.1% 95.9%

TABLE 5: TYPES OF PARTNERS PER SCHOOL School Total Cash Non-Cash Busines Agenc Faith Highe Other s y Communities r Ed Barnard Brown 7 1 1 2 1 1 2 Batchelder 4 0 1 2 0 1 0 Betances 13 0 5 3 2 1 2 Breakthrough Charter 17 1 3 4 0 1 9 Burns 12 0 2 3 1 2 3 Burr 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 Clark 5 0 0 4 1 0 0 Dwight 6 1 3 1 1 0 1 Fisher 7 1 1+ 3 1 1 1 MD Fox 12 1 1 8 0 0 2 Hartford Transitional 10 5 9 2 0 0 1 Learning Academy Hooker 6 1 1 2 0 0 3 Kennelly 6 2 2 3 0 0 1 King 6 0 0 4 1 1 0 Kinsella 9 0 0 2 2 3 2 McDonough 10 0 1 6 0 1 3+ Milner 7 0 1 2 2 0 2 Moylan 8 1 3 1 0 1 0 Naylor 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 Parkville 7 0 0 3 0 1 3 Rawson 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 Sanchez 8 1 1 3 0 1 3 SAND 18 1 4 3 3 2 3 Simpson-Waverly 13 1 1 6 0 1 3 Twain 10 1 2 0 3 1 3 Noah Webster 3 1 0 1 0 0 2 West Middle 23 1 4 15 4 0 0

Wish 8 3 3 1 1 0 2 Fox Middle 29 8+ 18 12 1 2 7 Hartford Magnet 10 1 0 7 1 2 0 Middle School Quirk Middle 9 1 2 4 0 1 2 South Middle 6 1 0 2 0 1 2 Bulkeley High 13+ 3 8+ 1 0 2 1 Hartford Public 5 1 3 1 1 0 0 Sport Sciences 40 3 19 15 1 2 4 Academy Weaver High 26+ 11 9+ 2 0 2 4 School to Work 13+ 3 11 1 0 2 0 Other System-Wide 37+ 10 7 6 0 1 1

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