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Appendix B: Wendell Phillips VPA Magnet School

Program/School, LEA, City, State	Program Description		Student Characteristics
	Parent Involvement Activities/Strategies	Grades Served; Enrollment	Race/Ethnicity	% Poverty1 and Title I Status
Wendell Phillips VPA Magnet School Kansas City Public Schools Kansas City, MO (Urban)	Parent/community liaison averages 10 home visits per week to get parents' input on important issues and to discuss children's academic or social problems. Parent/community liaison arranges carpools, drives parents herself, or arranges for parents to take taxis to school. Parent resource area lends learning kits, educational videos, how-to materials, books, and tapes to support student learning at home. Approximately 10–15 parents visit each day. Funding Sources2: Title I, state desegregation funding, community volunteers, donations from local business partners Evidence of Success: During the 1995–96 school year, approximately 150 parents attended parent/teacher conferences. An orientation session on state, district, and school policies at the beginning of the 1996-97 school year was attended by 157 parents. There were no increases in some tested subject areas on the ITBS from 1994-95 to 1995-96; however, first grade made some modest increases (e.g., vocabulary by three percentile points and math concepts by four percentile points); also third and fifth grades saw increases in math.	K–5 400	70% African American 22% white 8% Hispanic and other minority	79% FRL Schoolwide Program Magnet School

¹ All schools and districts included in this Idea Book receive Title I funding. This column indicates whether a school has implemented a schoolwide program.

² Administrators in many schools cannot separate the costs of parent involvement efforts from other reforms and activities. This is especially true in schools that have implemented schoolwide programs (as have most schools in this appendix). However, administrators reported that, in addition to their school or district general operating budget, the funding sources listed here provide a major source of support for their parent involvement efforts.
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[Parent Resource Center]

[The Alliance Schools Initiative]