GLOW role in education reform
GLOW role in education reform:
To advocate, lead and influence laws, policies, and evidence-based practices to improve education and leadership outcomes for marginalized girls and assist student success in school and life
Goals
- Reduce enrollment based gender disparity in targeted rural areas
- Elimination of achievement gap between rural girls and their urban counterparts
- Increase primary and high school graduation and retention rates among girls in iGLOW targeted areas
- Increase post-secondary graduation rates among rural/marginalized girls
- Ensure equitable distribution of human, operating and capital fiscal resources in high need, high poverty schools in iGLOW targeted areas
- Develop and institute leadership programs within rural schools to empower girls to view and advocate for themselves as agents of transformational change within their lives and their communities
- Enhance rural girls participation in the political process and community service
- Targeted recruitment, hire and retention of quality leaders/teachers in iGLOW targeted schools
- Broaden horizon of possibilities for girls in iGLOW targeted areas
- Focus policy and resource attention to Early Childhood education so as to ensure that girls have a strong education start
- Work to increase community/family engagement in girls education
- Work to encourage private-public-partnership for targeted schools