Year Up Founder & CEO, Gerald Chertavian, on Tangible Solutions to Address the Opportunity Divide in this Country
Gerald Chertavian, Founder and CEO of Year Up, discusses the systematic problem our country faces in addressing income inequality and the role that COVID-19 has played in intensifying the problem.
In an interview with Dr. Lori Esposito Murray, President of the Committee for Economic Development at The Conference Board, Chertavian focuses the conversation on critical steps our country can take in reducing the opportunity divide for impoverished communities and people of color.
“At the end of the day, education is our most critical opportunity. If we are going to close the opportunity divide, [we must] insist that all of our children are getting quality education,” said Chertavian. “In the most recent research from Stanford, it has shown that the achievement gap is more related to poverty than race. Segregation, which corelates by race to poverty, has disproportionate effects of communities of color because they tend to be in high poverty schools. High poverty schools get less resources in education and less experienced teachers.”
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Dr. Lori Esposito Murray is senior fellow for national security and managing director of CEO programs at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Prior to joining CFR, Murray served as the president of the Committee for Economic Development, the nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy center of The C...Full Bio |
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Gerald Chertavian is the founder and CEO of Year Up, a national nonprofit that was recognized by Fast Company and The Monitor Group as using business excellence to engineer social change. His book, A Year Up, is a New York Times Best Seller.<...Full Bio |
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