ABSTRACT
The Urban League of Rochester has placed a high priority on the improvement of educational opportunity for blacks and other minority students in the Rochester public schools. The Urban League of Rochester realized that education is the responsibility of the total community, and any serious attempt to address this crisis must involve the whole community. Therefore, the Rochester Education Initiative was launched with two primary objectives: to inform the total community of the crisis of low academic achievement within the public school system and to involve the total community in a set of strategies to correct this problem. As a result of the Rochester Education Initiative, a variety of activities were developed to address the problem of improving student achievement in the city's public schools. These activities were generated from a variety of community sectors and involved various strategies. The chapter describes in greater detail the activities that are occurring.
