Jason Watts
Executive Director
Scholarship Prep
Jason Watts is the creator and Executive Director for Scholarship Prep, which operates four schools in Southern California encompassing grades TK-8/ He began his career in education teaching grades Kindergarten through eighth. He eventually became a site administrator at the top-performing district school in San Bernardino County and later co-founded an award-winning charter school organization before developing the concept for Scholarship Prep. Scholarship Prep has received the CSP Federal Grant for Expansion and Replication in the amount of $12m for their successful work with underserved students, including a significant percentage of homeless and foster youth. The organization has also received the Homeless Innovative Programs (HIP) grant, which is used to to scale up their innovative practices and develop a model for other LEAs that work with students experiencing homelessness.
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