Birmingham Education Foundation

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The Birmingham Education Foundation (nicknamed Ed) is an organization which supports improvements in the Birmingham City Schools system. It is headed by executive director Michael Froning and board chair Will Ferniany (who succeeded founding chair Fred McCallum). The group was patterned after the Mobile Area Education Foundation which has been successful in South Alabama.

The organization, founded in 2008, grew out of the planning efforts of the Yes We Can! Birmingham campaign, which was launched in 2007 by the Birmingham Business Leadership Group and the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. The group's marketing efforts have been helped by a year's worth of pro bono advertising and design services from Cayenne Creative.

The foundation has four major goals for its efforts with the system:

  • Implementing a program to promote parent involvement (based on the "Parent University" in place in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina school system)
  • Supporting the creation of career-focused high school programs using programs from the National Academy Foundation and International Baccalaureate
  • Offering more opportunities for professional development to administrators and teachers
  • Preparing students for Advanced Placement coursework in grades 6-8 with the "Laying the Foundation" program.

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