This month, our parent leaders headed to their local branch of Citibank with families from Bryant and Flynn Elementary, supporting for many their first contribution to their student’s saving account.
This month, Marshall Extended Day Program students put their math skills to good use - plotting the flight path of the monarch butterfly, finding flies in a spider web, and feeding the ant queen [...]
The new year began with concerns around immigration and deportations in the Mission District. Hearing these fears from families across the community, the Mission Community Beacon and Parent [...]
For John O'Connell's Senior Class, submitting their college applications is an important first step on the path to college. Next up - meeting the deadline for financial aid. On Thursday night, [...]
The College Connect program has officially began for our newest cohort of 27 first-generation students in Cohort 9. The newest college-bound students came together with their families for [...]
Many parents in the Mission District are experiencing a new fear - fear of immigration officers knocking on their door. In the wake of recent ICE raids in our community, the Parent Partner [...]
This month we are debuting the Volunteer of the Month feature in the newsletter. Joey Fino has been volunteer with Mission Graduates since the fall of 2015.
Beacon students in the brand-new Social Media & Journalism Class picked students of the week, questions to ask the students, and interviewed the students.
Mission Graduates has been promoting College Wednesdays at John O’Connell High School. We are bringing our unique college access curriculum to 11th and 12th grade classes this for a two-hour [...]
