CISDR Results for 2006-2007

During the 2006-2007 school year, CIS Dallas Region provided direct services and agency referrals to 29,000 students and comprehensive case management to 7,827 students. Of the students on receiving one-on-one case management:
  • 98% stayed in school
  • 90% improved in academics, behavior and/or attendance, and
  • 90% of eligible seniors graduated.

What Others are Saying About CIS Dallas Region:

"CIS strives to help its students gain 'a marketable skill' that can be put to use in the workforce. [The Texas Association of Business] is proud to endorse this program."
—Bill Hammond, President, Texas Association of Business

“We are extremely appreciative of the assistance Communities In Schools will provide for our students. Their academic-support programs have proven successful in the past, and we look forward to expanding our work with them to benefit children.”
—Dr. Annette T. Griffin, superintendent of Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD

“In alignment with one of the recommendations from Dallas Achieves, building community partnerships is needed to impact student achievement. The Dallas ISD is proud to have your organization in our schools helping students and families."
—Rachel Moon, Student Advocacy and Mentoring Coordinator, Dallas ISD

“I am 150 percent behind the [CIS] program. I think it’s outstanding work by a lot of people all over the state. It’s the most successful program that we have seen to date.”
—Senate Education Chairwoman Florence Shapiro, R-Plano

"Communities In Schools Dallas Region is a terrific model for people who want to make a difference…President Bush and I have supported Communities In Schools Dallas Region since our days in Texas where the CIS program is the largest in the United States."
—First Lady Laura Bush

"Mentoring helps keep children from dropping out of school. I support Communities In Schools Dallas Region which meets the Governor's mentoring standards and helps youngsters both academically and emotionally." 
—Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst

"For the second consecutive year, Worth Magazine chose Communities In Schools as one of the 100 charities most likely to save the world...."
—Worth Magazine

"CIS reports consistently high rates of student promotion, graduation, enrollment in higher education and employment in Texas and in the rest of the nation."
—2005 Texas State Auditor’s Office Report to the Senate Education Committee

"Ebby Halliday Realtors is proud to support Communities In Schools Dallas Region to benefit children and education." 
—Ebby Halliday

"Communities In Schools Dallas Region is a proactive program that allows students with different types of problems to contact someone at the school to become their community liaison to receive different types of social resources in order to make a better student, a better family and an all around better citizen." 
—Texas State Senator Royce West