Seattle University’s relationship with a Seattle public school is about to become much more significant. On Monday, the private Jesuit university announced a $1 million-a-year project to greatly expand the help it gives to Bailey Gatzert Elementary — to include the school’s entire neighborhood, one of the lowest-income areas in the city.
Seattle Times higher education reporter
For 20 years, Seattle University students have trekked to nearby Bailey Gatzert Elementary to lend a hand with tutoring in the city’s highest-poverty school.
That relationship with the Seattle public school is about to become much more significant. On Monday, the private Jesuit university announced a $1 million-a-year project to greatly expand the help it gives Bailey Gatzert to include the elementary school’s entire neighborhood in the Central District, one of the lowest-income areas in the city.
Modeled in part after the Harlem Children’s Zone, the university’s Youth Initiative will bring a broad range of assistance to the neighborhood, including more tutoring and after-school help, free legal aid to recent immigrants provided by the university’s law school and free health assistance from the nursing school.
though that Seattle U still uses a Shoreline school for its demonstration and teacher training where they share their professors and teachers. I surely hope that the Bailey Gatzert area will benefit.