LOISAT’s mission is to create a new, achievement-based community of knowledge. This LOISAT community will compensate for an educational system that has created weak math skills, miseducation and racially differentiated academic outcomes for generations according to NAEP assessments. The LOISAT community will shield Black children from racist myths through individual, recognized and rewarded achievements. LOISAT intends to provide a deep and broad education starting with math, language arts, and African studies to students. Mathematics, the language of nature, is the first shield. The ability to read, understand and criticize texts that relate complex information is the second shield. A broad and deep understanding of the history of Africa, and the African Diaspora in the world, is both a shield and a spear that debunks racist myths with facts.
LOISAT will fulfill its mission through a K-12 Teach and Learn platform and a tutoring community of peers. Provided students pass rigorous benchmarks on the LOISAT platform, they will instantly receive a stipend. If a student does not understand the material from an earlier grade, that student can relearn it on the platform, pass those LOISAT benchmarks, and receive the corresponding stipends. Students can choose to focus on one or two subjects, but LOISAT encourages students to learn all three. LOISAT also intends to assist College Students and professional scientists to remain in their chosen STEM field by giving them stipends for tutoring. Professional scientists will also benefit from grants depending on funding and circumstances.
For more details, see the LOISAT plan.