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[[Funding Change: GE Foundation Enabling Changes to NYC School System]]
[[Vinek Kemp] Earlier this month in a Harlem middle school,]
[GE and New York City's school's chancellor announced a new program ]
[which will pump up to $250,000]
[into 55 of the cities most deserving middle schools.]
[The idea is to bring systematic change to a system of schools]
[failed to meet the most basic educational needs.]
[Sharon Weissbrot is the Principal of MS 326,]
[one of the schools receiving the foundation money,]
[and plans on using the cash to enrich math, science, ]
[and technology studies in her school. ]
[you're just not going to get there and you will drop out]
[and that's more of a burden for society than we realize.]
[Many of these kids are dropping out in 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade.]
[We know that if a child's in 6th grade,]
[and fails one or two majors, ]
[the odds are that that child will be out of school by the time he's in 10th grade.]
[But when you have an organization ]
[that's there to put money behind a school,]
[to work with parents to get everyone together on the same page, ]
[to make sure the children strive and achieve their dreams, and achieve their potential,]
[the world just opens up, there's no two ways about it.]
[[Vinek Kemp] The philanthropic branch of GE--]
[the GE Foundation--will fund 17 of the one-year grants.]
[It's a wonderful program that's part of our Developing Futures in Education Program,]
[that really is bringing money to focus on math and science education,]
[but more importantly, it leads to student achievement ]
[in math and science in the middle schools.]
[[Vinek Kemp] The initiative has even peaked the attention of Washington.]
[New York Congressman, Charles Rangel, attended the event,]
[insisting that education is the touchstone of the nation's strength.]
[[Charles Rangel] In this Country, what makes the difference regardless of what your color is,]
[is the ability to achieve those dreams,]
