Storied Productions is a company very much tied to the city of Denton. We love the city, love the people of the city, and care for the city’s well being. One of the things that has been greatly successful and beneficial for our city is Communities in Schools of North Texas which is a program that places volunteer mentors with at-risk students to help them graduate school.
If you haven’t already heard about the massive education budget cuts here in Texas you probably don’t watch the news, listen to the radio, or talk to anyone with kids. The number of valuable teachers losing their jobs is nauseating. On top of that, Communities in Schools is losing ALL of it’s state funding. ALL. For the students who need the most help, this is one of the few places they could turn to for aid.
The proof is in the pudding as evidenced by the Communities in Schools website which states “after five years of detailed evaluation underwritten by The Atlantic Philanthropies, [evaluations] concluded that Communities In Schools’ model resulted in the strongest reduction in dropout rates of any existing fully scaled dropout prevention program.”
Denton has not taken this reduced funding lightly and the Denton S.O.S. group formed specifically to Save Our Schools and privately fund the Communities in Schools project for North Texas.
The fund-raising efforts will continue through-out the summer but the first came with a concert by two-time Grammy award-winning, Denton-native Brave Combo (@bravecombo) and Brass-Jazz-Funk group Inner City All-Stars (@innercity) at Dan’s Silver Leaf (@danssilverleaf) where we enjoyed delicious Chicken n’ Waffles. Yum!
To see more photos from that night see our Flickr set here.
To see more photos from that night see our Flickr set here.
06. Jul, 2011 
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