Equity in Education
All children deserve a quality education.
Love Thy Neighbor Institute
Equity in Education
Inequitable Access to Quality Education
Education plays a critical role in determining how we spend our adult lives, as well as how we participate in our society. All children deserve a quality education and a healthy learning environment, yet millions of America’s children go without – preventing them from achieving the highest vision for their lives and reaching their maximum potential. To reach our goal of compassionate loving neighbors, we must ensure our children develop into thriving adults, with equitable opportunities to achieve a more purposeful and fulfilling life. Join our efforts to achieve equity in America’s educational systems.
Love Thy Neighbor Institute
What We Do to Achieve Equity in Education
Expanding Access to High Quality Childcare
LTNI offers hundreds of scholarships to low-income households, to assist eligible families with paying for high-quality childcare. LTNI also collaborates with childcare centers to encourage them to introduce sliding scale opportunities for low-income families. Your donation will help more children start school with the skills they need to reach their fullest potential.
Student Emotional Health and Wellbeing
LTNI partners with economically disadvantaged schools to create high-quality emotional health and wellbeing programs. These programs are designed to help children heal from the trauma that they’ve experienced. Your donation will support programs such as art therapy, CBT, Healing through Horses, to nurture children’s cultural, emotional, and psychological well-being.
Eliminating the School to Prison Pipeline
LTNI partners with school districts, local legislators, and district attorneys to enact meaningful solutions that eliminate the school-to-prison pipeline. Millions of K-12 students from disadvantaged backgrounds are disproportionately incarcerated for minor infractions because of increasingly harsh school and municipal policies, creating an unnecessary cycle of recidivism.
Understanding the Issues
Extensive research supports that children living in disadvantaged, underprivileged neighborhoods achieve lower educational outcomes. On average, they achieve lower kindergarten readiness scores and have overall lower educational outcomes than their peers in wealthier communities. Access to a quality education should not be determined by where someone lives or by one’s household income. Creating new, innovative education and housing policies will eliminate inequity in our educational systems, creating upward mobility for families in need. Join us as we create a more equitable future for our children and communities.