IAE - To know is to participate, to participate is to build: Towards Collective action to transform education in Las Margaritas

$456.8K USD

Funder	Inter-American Foundation
Recipient Organization	Innovacin y Apoyo Educativo, A.C.
Country	Mexico
Start Date	Feb 26, 2008
End Date	Oct 14, 2012
Duration	1,692 days
Number of Grantees	4
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`50431-36`

Grant Description

Innovacin y Apoyo Educativo, A.C. (IAE), will strengthen five student councils in schools in Chiapas and four Consejos Comunitarios de Participacin Social en la Educacin (COCOPASE) whose members are drawn from teachers, parents and students working to improve education. Exchanges will offer opportunities to learn from each other.

Students can apply for subgrants to fund their proposals for better schools.

Additional funding will be used to train more than 1,500 parents, educators, students and other residents of the municipality of las Margaritas, Chiapas, to deliberate and reach consensus on the allocation of the municipal education budget.

Participants will learn democratic practices and will craft education policy around the school as a place of learning that also furthers civic involvement.