Middle School Initiative

To address the need for providing supplemental educational opportunities in our urban neighborhoods, the MWA Beat the Streets Program will launch its inaugural Middle School League beginning December, 2005.

In 2004-05, a pilot program at Simon Baruch Middle School, a public school on the East Side of Manhattan, was conducted by the MWA in cooperation with the school administration in response to a parent's initiative. 

The success of that program has allowed us to successfully solicit funding to start programming in a number of other public middle schools and to coordinate the efforts of some existing programs to form our league.

We will be supervising the training and competition for 20+ clubs throughout the city.

Clubs will participate in one of three categories:

1.   Clubs established by the MWA in Public Schools that will be open to students of that       school.

2.   Clubs that are formed at schools or community base organizations that will be open to students from a number of schools who are in the middle school grades.

3.   Existing Middle School Programs in some of the city's private schools.

There will be two "seasons" for the Beat the Streets League, one beginning in December and ending in mid February and the second one beginning in early March and ending in Mid May.

Programs have the opportunity to participate in one or the other or, in some cases, both seasons.

For more information about the MWA “Beat the Streets” Middle School Program please contact:

Bill Crum
646-244-9714
e-mail: edmwa@mwausa.org