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Diplomas Now and its lead partner Talent Development Secondary work together nationwide with other partners to change schools and students lives.

Diplomas Now is a public-private partnership that helps some of America’s toughest middle and high schools ensure that their students graduate college or career ready. With three major national nonprofits, local school districts, and our funders, Diplomas Now is the first fully integrated approach that improves a school’s curriculum and instruction as it provides the right support to the right students at the right time. Watch the video to see how Diplomas Now works and how it’s changing students and teachers futures.

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Talent Development Secondary’s mission is to provide evidence-based models, tools and services to the most challenged secondary schools serving the most vulnerable students in the country.

TDS envisions a nation in which our most vulnerable students have access to an education that develops their unique strengths and talents; builds their academic and socio-emotional competencies; engages them in relevant and exciting learning opportunities; supports them so they can succeed; and prepares them for post-secondary education and the 21st century world of work.

Our Partners

Implementation Partners

Johns Hopkins University School of Education

Everyone Graduates Center

Cross State High School Collaborative

Diplomas Now

City Year

Communities in Schools

 

Funding Partners

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Schusterman Family Foundation

AT&T Aspire

 

State and District Partners

Colorado Department of Education

Guam Department of Education

IL_EMPOWER Illinois Board of Education

Louisiana Department of Education

Massachusetts Department of Education

Bogalusa City Schools

Colorado Springs, School District #11

High Plains Regional Education Cooperative

Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG), LA

New Orleans College Prep, CMO

University of New Mexico’s ECHO Institute (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes)

 

School Partners

Alexander Hamilton High School, LAUSD

Aki Kurose Middle School, Seattle

Battle Creek Central High School, MI

Providence High School, Phoenix

Ferriday High School, LA

Gilbert Sena High School, NM

LaGrange High School, LA

New Orleans College Prep, LA

Northdale Superintendent’s Academy, East Baton Rouge

Opelousas High School, LA

Thomas Jefferson High School, LAUSD