How are Dreamers selected?
An IHAD Project includes either an entire elementary school grade (of students on free or reduced lunch program) or an entire analogous age group from a low-income public housing development. The children selected are from low-income communities and attend schools that generally have low achievement scores, high dropout rates, and low projections of college attendance. The students must be adopted no later than the end of the second grade – earlier is preferable. Eliminations, exclusions, or selectivity within the group are prohibited. A typical IHAD Boulder Class consists of 40-50 Dreamers. The main criteria for selection of Dreamers are low-income status (either on free or reduced federal lunch program or living in low-income public housing).
