AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS IN LOS ANGELES
www.lasbest.org
The nationally acclaimed Los Angeles-based after-school program LA's BEST (Los Angeles' Better Educated Students for Tomorrow) provides academic and social enrichment activities for elementary students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Over the past several years, The Broad Foundation has actively supported this exceptional program, making investments in the organization's expansion, operations and after-school arts activities. A UCLA/CRESST study reported that students who attended LA's BEST were significantly less likely to drop out of high school than their non-LA's BEST student counterparts.

CHARTER SCHOOLS IN LOS ANGELES
High-quality public charter schools in Los Angeles are showing dramatic results in improving student achievement, and The Broad Foundation is making investments to ensure the best models are available to as many students as possible. The foundation's investments in Los Angeles charters span four charter management organizations (CMOs) and two facilities developers, impacting more than 25,000 students. Among those CMOs supported are Alliance for College Ready Public Schools, Green Dot Public Schools, Aspire Public Schools and KIPP. Facilities developers supported include Excellent Education Development and Pacific Charter School Development, Inc.

HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
The Broad Foundation supports efforts to bring first-rate opportunities in arts education to Los Angeles students through a world-class high school for the visual and performing arts. The foundation's investment supports "Discovering the Arts," a board of community leaders that has partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to create and support the arts high school, Central High School #9 in downtown Los Angeles. Discovering the Arts believes that by drawing on the experience, networks, creativity and energy of the board's artists and community leaders, the arts high school will become not only a vital neighborhood and citywide resource but also a preeminent public arts school in the country. The Broad Foundation's investment supports Discovering the Arts' efforts to help the district hire an executive director, assist with construction costs and supplement the school's operational budget.

OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS
www.scholarshipfund.org/sccsf/
The Children's Scholarship Fund is a national organization offering tuition assistance for low-income students to attend private school. In recognition of the severe school facilities crisis facing the Los Angeles Unified School District, The Broad Foundation supports the efforts of the Southern California Children's Scholarship Fund to provide private education access to low-income families as an alternative to overcrowded district schools.