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Company Profile for Springboard Schools.


Springboard Schools is a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive.

Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law.
 network of educators committed to raising student achievement and narrowing the achievement gap. We work with education organizations and their leaders at every level of the system to provide them with knowledge, skills and tools to create school systems in which good teaching is the norm in every classroom for every student.

Our work is based on research that demonstrates that even the poorest schools, and even the most disadvantaged This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims.

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 school populations can show impressive gains in student achievement. Our work put those research findings in action at our client schools and districts.

We were founded in 1995 as the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative col·lab·o·rate  
intr.v. col·lab·o·rat·ed, col·lab·o·rat·ing, col·lab·o·rates
1. To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort.

2.
 (BASRC BASRC Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (California) ). Since that time we have worked in more than 500 schools in 87 school districts in the San Francisco Bay area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation).

The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay
, the Central Valley and southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Our clients include urban, suburban and rural school districts both large and small.
Company:                  Springboard Schools

   Headquarters Address:     181 Fremont Street
                             Second Floor
                             San Francisco, CA 94105

   Main Telephone:           415-348-5500

   Website:                  www.SpringboardSchools.org

   Type of Organization:     Non-profit

   Industry:                 School Reform

   Key Executives:           Executive Director: Merrill Vargo
                             Development Director: Armando Zumaya

   Public Relations
     Contact:                Ben Delaney
     Phone:                  415-348-5508
     Email:                  ben@springboardschools.org

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