Julieta Rhea’s mission with Education is Freedom is to create a “college-going culture” at North Dallas High School.

April 15th 2010, Education is Freedom and Mayor Tom Leppert held a job fair for the third annual Mayor's Intern Fellows Program. Over 350 students attending the job fair in hopes to recieve a summer internship with one of Dallas's top companies.

 Many young people grow up expecting to attend college after high school. But that's not always the case, especially for those living in our community's lower-income areas.

See this article in the Dallas Business Journal

Education Is Freedom and Texas A&M University-Commerce will announce today a $3.2 million partnership that focuses on preparing and motivating DISD students to go to college and succeed once there.

Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and AT&T Inc. kicked off the second year of the Mayor's Intern Fellows program on Monday by encouraging more companies and organizations to step up to provide positions for the students.

Young people are often urged to pursue higher education simply because a college graduate earns more money. There are numerous charts illustrating the stark income gap between a person with a high school diploma and one who holds a college degree.

$300,000 to Education is Freedom to provide scholarship assistance to help qualifying students pay tuition, fees, and other education-related expenses which are not covered by other scholarships or grants.

They are some of the top students from Dallas inner-city high schools, yet when asked about their career goals, their ideas don’t go much beyond “cut hair” and “play sports.”