Boosting Black Student Success is a Boost for Tampa Bay
by Paul Luna, President and CEO, Helios Education Foundation Across the Tampa Bay region, more than 345,000 students will start school this month. The new school year brings with it the shared hope, among everyone invested in the success of our schools and...
Read every story in FCAN’s 2021-22 Advocacy Spotlight series!
During the fall of 2021, FCAN kicked off its first Advocacy Fellowship, working with Local College Access Networks (LCANs) to bring student voices to Tallahassee and advocating for statewide policies to reach Florida’s SAIL to 60 Initiative and achieve a Talent Strong...
Noemi Perez is empowering students to succeed through Career Pathways
Earlier this year, Noemi Y. Perez, president and CEO of The Immokalee Foundation, was named FCAN’s 2022 College Ready Florida Innovator. In addition to honoring her work during FCAN’s Talent Strong Florida Summit, we recently spoke with Perez about redesigning her...
NCAN Guest Blog: Key Questions to Ask Before the School Year Starts
Bill DeBaun, National College Attainment Network I get it: no one wants to talk about to-do lists in August. For many, August is when we’re clinging to the last few weeks of summer vacation and pointedly not talking about the start of the impending school year. Still,...