Beginning with Children was founded on our deep belief in the power of education to transform - a child, a family, a community. Our schools are located in communities where roughly a third of all families earn less than $25,000 per year. Our hard-working families, facing high rates of low-wage employment, are finding it increasingly difficult to break the cycle of poverty and continuing injustice which plagues their neighborhoods. Education can break the cycle. Education opens doors and allows children to see beyond their challenges. We give every child an equal chance to be well-educated in a free public school with excellent resources, from Kindergarten through college. Our children succeed. With each child's success, we leave the world a better place than we found it.