2019 IMPACT REPORT & Ten-Year Review 2018-2019 BOARD of DIRECTORS
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2019 IMPACT REPORT & Ten-Year Review 2018-2019 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Honorable Brian J. Davis, Coley Jones Chair Market Executive, U.S. District Court Judge Bank of America Kevin Hyde, Ronnie King Vice Chair President, Partner, Foley & Lardner Scratchwerk, LLC CELEBRATING Marsha G. Oliver, Donna Orender Secretary Chief Executive Officer Senior Director of and Founder, Orender PROGRESS Community Outreach, THE Unlimited, LLC PLAYERS Championship Anita Vining Buck Williams, Realtor, Berkshire Public schools in Duval County are Treasurer Hathaway Home Services Vice President, better than they have ever been. Our UBS Wealth Management Dr. Diana L. Greene, ex-officio graduation rate is 85 percent, and Lakesha Burton Superintendent, Duval Assistant Chief of County Public Schools the school district has been ranked Community Engagement, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office The Honorable Lori one of the top urban districts in the Hershey, ex-officio Poppy Clements Chair, Duval County country by the National Assessment Community Volunteer School Board of Educational Progress. John Delaney Sarah Pasion, ex-officio Shareholder, 2019 Florida Blue Duval Rogers Towers Law Firm County Teacher of the Year Cindy Edelman Teacher and Community Volunteer Rev. Mark L. Griffin Pastor, Wayman Ministries Core Capabilities We leverage these strengths in all our work: STAFF COMMUNITY Rachael Tutwiler Fortune Carly Norgord ENGAGEMENT President Senior Manager of Finance and Administration DATA & Coretta K. Hill Vice President Jen Silva RESEARCH Director of Fund Laura Alrutz, Esq. Development Director of Policy and POLICY & Advocacy Ashanta Williamson ADVOCACY Fund Development Warren Buck Associate and Executive Director of Teacher Assistant EDUCATION Leadership EXPERTISE Stephanie Garry Garfunkel Director of Marketing and STRATEGIC Communications INVESTMENT Maira Martelo, Ed. D Director of Strategic Engagement and Partnerships In 2009, community leaders founded the Jacksonville Public Education Fund as a high-capacity independent organization that supports great public schools in Duval County. CELEBRATING At the time, our graduation rate was 56 percent — and too many children were struggling to master grade-level math and reading skills. We needed our community to rally around the cause of public education and make our schools the foundation PROGRESS of a thriving city. Ten years later, we’ve made tremendous progress. Our district is closer than it has ever been to an A grade, and our graduation rate is now soaring over 85 percent. JPEF is proud to have played a part in this success story by putting the public back in public education. Our work on the CLOSING ONE in THREE photography exhibit at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens raised awareness about our dropout crisis. Awareness turned into action through the groundbreaking ONE by ONE campaign, which identified community THE GAP priorities for public schools and informed a new district-wide strategic plan. The Quality Education for All Fund, based at The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida and Students living in poverty administered by JPEF, helped move the needle in our lowest- don’t have the same chance to performing schools and guided JPEF’s focus on human capital in our next chapter. succeed as their peers — yet. We must close the opportunity On our 10th anniversary, we want to express our sincere gratitude for all you’ve done to support this progress. None of gap by investing in education this would have been possible without you. leaders. In the midst of great progress, we now have to double down on our efforts to close the opportunity gap for students who are still struggling. We are thrilled to launch a new School Leadership Initiative to help improve school quality in our low- income neighborhoods. We hope you will join us in this work. Sincerely, Leveraging Leadership for Public Schools Our next chapter will focus on strengthening the leadership skills of the people closest to our students: EFFECTIVE Judge Brian J. Davis PRINCIPALS 2019-2020 Chairman Board of Directors TEACHER LEADERS Rachael Tutwiler Fortune PARENT President ADVOCATES 2 School Facts Jax launched Our new website 2013 Jacksonville Public made school Education Fund performance data established easily accessible to the community. Educators 2011 and parents Community leaders voiced support invested in improving for rigorous public education instruction identified the need for a high-capacity Community played Across the country, local education a leading role in states considered fund. One of the selecting DCPS Quality Education adopting more first initiatives was leadership rigorous standards a year-long study by for All Fund launched for academic Education Resource The Jacksonville achievement in Strategies that led to Public Education public schools to help Responding to the more efficient use of Fund served as a students compete in priorities identified resources, co-funded strong advocate a globalized economy. ONE by ONE in the ONE by with DCPS. in informing and JPEF informed became flagship ONE campaign, engaging the and engaged the initiative The Community community around community to Foundation for the 2012 school advocate for the In September 2011, Northeast Florida board elections, and successful adoption the Jacksonville launched this $38 around the school of the Florida Public Education million investment board’s search Standards. Fund launched in human capital to its first major for and selection of a new DCPS improve teaching community and leadership in mobilization superintendent, Dr. Nikolai P. Vitti. historically low- initiative. The performing schools. ONE in THREE JPEF administered art exhibit was the fund. seen by more than 75,000 viewers, and Schools benefiting nearly 1,700 people from these participated in ONE investments showed by ONE community significant gains in conversations. student achievement 2009 and school culture, with higher graduation rates and higher school grades. 2016 2012 3 Where are they now? Many people touched by JPEF are paying it forward. Visit jaxpef.org/ annual-report to hear New system from them through our leaders arrived to exclusive online videos. build on progress With the departure of Dr. Vitti as superintendent, JPEF hosted our first- ever School Board 2019 Candidate Academy and engaged the community as 2017 the school board launched a search and selection of a new DCPS JPEF supported superintendent, tax referendum Dr. Diana Greene. for schools Duval County Public Schools proposed a 15-year half- Education penny sales tax to Parent leaders pioneer spoke in pay for $2 billion advocated for Jacksonville in improvements children to public school New framework Geoffrey Canada, buildings. JPEF called Building on a focused on founder of the on City Council to decade of impact developing people Harlem Children’s put the matter to through community Zone, inspired a vote and shared engagement, JPEF JPEF adopted a new Jacksonville results from our graduated the first focused strategic leaders to support annual community class of Parents Who framework to deepen students from poll showing strong Lead, an evidence- our impact on school low-income support for a small based parent quality by investing backgrounds, as tax increase for leadership program, in human capital to part of JPEF’s first schools. in partnership strengthen public EDTalks event. with Duval County schools. Public Schools, the Jacksonville Public Library and School Leadership Kids Hope Alliance. Teachers Initiative launched Parent advocates empowered as in Title I schools led projects on education leaders bullying, implicit bias JPEF launched a School in schools and traffic JPEF expanded the Leadership Initiative to safety in school EDDY Awards into a provide professional zones. yearlong program for learning and grants to Teachers of the Year school leaders in Title I to build their capacity elementary schools. as practitioners and leaders in their schools. 2018 4 EFFECTIVE PRINCIPALS Powering Potential THROUGH SCHOOL LEADERSHIP 2,300 Research has shown school leaders have a critical impact on student learning. Newly launched in 2019, the School Leadership ESTIMATED STUDENTS Initiative is designed to improve IMPACTED BY THE student learning in Title I SCHOOL LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE IN PILOT elementary schools by developing YEAR 2019-2020 phenomenal school leaders. 5 Spotlight on: EFFECTIVE THE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE PRINCIPALS They may never grace the pages of The Wall Street Journal or Fortune magazine, but they might possibly be the most important CEOs in our country. They are elementary school principals....It’s a tough job and the stakes are high. — Charlie Hollar, school turnaround expert Public schools in Duval County between two to seven months of and grant funding to school leaders have made great strides, but we additional learning gains. There are in Title I elementary schools in Duval have more work to do to close the virtually no cases of a school turning County. It also provides national opportunity gap for low-income around without a powerful leader. research to improve practices students. For this reason, JPEF is throughout the school system. launching the School Leadership The School Leadership Initiative Initiative. provides professional learning Great schools can only exist with Why Title I? Schools great leaders. Effective principals serving low-income are more likely to retain high-quality students face more teachers, and they are also more barriers to achievement, likely to dismiss poorly performing