New Smaller, More Effective High Schools

IAF-East affiliates began three of the first newer, smaller, higher quality public high schools in New York more than 10 years ago - sparking a rapidly expanding movement in school revitalization and reform. IAF East affiliates now co-sponsor five of these schools in New York and are considering starting several more.

After-School Programs

IAF-East organizations created the first authority dedicated to the funding and support of after-school programs - the Child First Authority in Baltimore.

Alliance Schools

IAF affiliates in Texas invented and implemented the Alliance School concept. This approach to engaging parents, teachers, community leaders, and administrators in an effort to improve student performance and connect the local school more constructively to the surrounding community is now widely practiced in many school districts across the southwest and west.