NEWS

Watch: Successful at-home learning, WJXT News4Jax, July 25, 2020

With summer right around the corner it is time to start thinking about how to keep your child busy and on track for the upcoming school year. Summer slide is the tendency for your student to forget the educational material they gained from the previous school year when entering the following school year. Unfortunately, this…

Watch: Unrest in America – Leon Baxton, WJXT News4Jax, April 22, 2020

Watch: Organization supporting at-risk youth in nontraditional ways, WJXT News4Jax, April 20, 2020

Read: University students serve local community as virtual volunteers, The Wave Jacksonville University, April 17, 2020

Communities In Schools of Jacksonville is dedicated to keeping students on track to graduation. We are partnered with Duval County Public Schools who recently set a record for the district’s graduation rate. The current graduation rate is at an all-time high with 86.5% of high school seniors graduating in the 2018-2019 school year. Not only…

With schools all over the country closing for the time being due to the global pandemic, almost everything has become virtual. Students have started to transition into the world of online learning and lots of change is coming. Change brings adaptation and new ways of going about our daily lives. The transition from being in…

Read: Coronavirus: ‘Virtual volunteers’ needed to help at-risk kids, seniors in Jacksonville area, The Florida Times-Union, April 3, 2020

A lot has happened in the past month and with that came a whirlwind of changes, but now is the time to stay on track despite the many curveballs that have been thrown at us. With everything going on in the world right now, it is best to not slip off your normal routine. Routines…

Watch: Virtual volunteering for at-risk students, WJXT News4Jax, March 31, 2020