Save Opportunity is a community initiative to protect the successful DC Opportunity Scholarship Program.

The five-year school scholarship program is scheduled to expire after the school year ending in June 2010 and the families who currently receive the scholarship will lose these funds.

Many, if not all of the children currently receiving scholarships will be forced to go to failing DC public schools, 86 percent of which do not meet adequate yearly progress goals.

Save Opportunity is a cause to allow a small percentage of students to be granted the "opportunity" to access a wider range of schools that can give them a different perspective.

It gives us a chance to measure the differences these kinds of programs can make and to better value both our public and private school communities.