Kids-U Employee Directory

Kids-U, formally known as Dallas Community Lighthouse was founded in November 2002 to address one of the most profound problems in Dallas: children not completing their education. Diana Baker and Paula DeGroat founded the organization with the goal to make a positive impact on the drop-out rates in Dallas. The combined passion of the founders to as... sist the low-income students in achieving academic success is what fueled the creation of Kids-U. "The academic achievement gap between poor and non-poor students is well-known. Low-income children consistently fall behind their peers in test scores, graduation rates, college enrollment, and other measures of academic success (cbpp.org). This achievement gap was the inspiration for the starting of Kids-U. Kids-U is a free after school tutoring program set up on-site in low-income apartment communities.Read More