Please join us for a special evening as Mission Graduates presents its 3rd annual “You Are an Example to Me” awards celebration!

The “You Are an Example to Me” awards honors individuals who set strong examples and contribute to the success of children and youth from the Mission District. We will be recognizing special youth, parents, business owners, and Mission Graduates community partners.

When: Tuesday, April 20th 6-8:00pm
Where: Vanguard Properties (2501 Mission Street @21st Street)
RSVP: Please RSVP by Monday, April 19th for your complimentary tickets. Email your name and # of people attending to Art at art@missiongraduates.org or call 415.864.5205 x12.

Framed in the context of massive days of actions, urgent community meetings, and essentially a generalized state of alarm due to the incumbent $113M budget cuts for all SFUSD schools, Mission Graduates and Mission High School hosted the 1^st Annual Parent Summit, on Saturday, March 20. Read more »

The 1st Annual Parent Summit will be on Saturday, March 20th 2010 at Mission High. See Summit Flyer for more information.

To register fill out the Summit Registration Form. To view a list of the workshops, view the Summit Workshop Blurbs. Want to see a Summit Master Schedule, click here!

For more information please contact Ario Salazar at 415.864.5205 or ario@missiongraduates.org. Read more »

The 1st Annual Parent Summit at Mission High School will be on Saturday, March 20th. For more information please contact Ario Salazar at 415.864.5205 or ario@missiongraduates.org.

Taking into consideration the critical juncture in which a great deal of schools, their English Learners Advisory Committees (ELAC) and School Site Councils (SSC) find themselves (due to the incumbent budget-cuts across the State, and primarily in SFUSD), the Parent Partner Program brought together the Parent Summit Steering Committee for a special session devoted to structuring discussions and organizing opinions about this extremely critical topic.  Read more »

You are cordially invited to a pre-Valentine’s Day dinner based on Love for your Community, Friendship for Mission District Youth, and Solidarity towards those who day after day instill in them the Dream of Attending & Finishing College. Read more »

For more information/Para mas informacion:

Ario Salazar 415.864.5205 x13/ario@missiongraduates.org Read more »

For weeks on end, parents expected that today would be quite hectic, but productive, for many of them at Marshall E.S. For twenty two parents, to be exact. Under heavy rains, and just as diligently as it happens on any other day, parents dropped their children at 8:40 a.m. to start school. Heavy coats, umbrellas, rain-boots, gloves, and scarves are a part of the wet, wet scene. As they were coming in, the rain swayed like no other day, propelled by the wind, and it sometimes dropped thinly, while at moments it looked like it was capable of pelting anything on its path against the ground.

Pilar and Kids

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Under the banner “Education for All/Educación para todos,” the Parent Partner Program has successfully linked up critical resources and Parent Liaisons at Marshall E.S., James Lick M.S., and Mission High to strengthen their work in empowering consistently marginalized parents. Read more »