In 1992, Pacific Educational Group, Inc. (PEG) was founded to closely support families in their transitions within and between K-12 and higher education. In 1996 the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce recognized PEG as the “Best New Business”. The company later grew into its intended mission of addressing systemic issues of educational inequity by providing guidance to districts as to how to meet the needs of underserved student of color populations.
Glenn E. Singleton is founder.
Dickinson-Kelley acknowledged that AAPS could do better in its efforts to reach out to community partners. She noted that the achievement gap elimination plan suggests creating a community pamphlet or repository to catalog partnerships that AAPS has with local organizations such as the Family Learning Institute, 826 Michigan, the Minority Students Achievement Network (MSAN), and the Pacific Education Group (PEG). She also pointed out that these partnerships “complement each other extraordinarily well.”
District administrators said the intent of the program was to work in a mentoring relationship with black students to help boost their achievement. They said it was part of the district’s work to combat the achievement gap, which in Ann Arbor is commonly referred to in terms of the difference in test scores, grade-point average, discipline and graduation rates between white and black students. Much of that work is being led by a consultant, Glenn Singleton, and his Pacific Education Group. The district has been employing the company since the 2004-05 school year and has paid it $341,000 so far, Roberts said.
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