A Different September Foundation is pleased present its annual report on the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001. Over the last year, the generosity of private foundations, corporations, and individuals enabled ADSF once again to give essential financial support to the Boston University/Chelsea Partnership in its effort to renew public education in the city of Chelsea.
Chelsea students continued to take important strides forward in 2000-01. The highlights of this progress are described in this report. The release of the comprehensive 2001 MCAS results came too late for the printers, but they reveal substantial improvement in mathematics and English language at all grade levels, in some cases at rates three times greater than statewide averages.
Donations to ADSF continue to be central to this progress. In particular, they sustain an array of special initiatives established by the Partnership since 1989. These include the Early Childhood Program, the Intergenerational Literacy Project, an enriched mathematics curriculum, a complete program in the performing and visual arts, school-based children's medical and dental health centers, and academically intense out-of-school programming. All of these initiatives have established roots for the public schools deep in the Chelsea community, the true and necessary foundation of successful education reform.
Community
support enables them to thrive. We thank you for it, and hope it will continue
in the coming year.