Ed Dept’s District-Level Competition Keeps Door Open for PreK-3rd Reforms
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Michigan Governor Unveils Community Schools Plan to Help Fight Blight
08/03/12
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced a new plan that will transform blighted neighborhoods into vibrant neighborhoods anchored by community schools. Read More >
Some Kids Need More to Get the Same Result
08/01/12
Coalition Director Martin J. Blank explains how the community school strategy works even in wealthy school districts such as the San Rafael City School District in northern California in this blog for the Huffington Post. Read More >
Major Education Programs to be Spared From Any Congressional Sequestration Funding Cuts
07/24/12
In a stunning turn of events, the U.S. Department of Education has revealed that the major K–12 education programs will be exempt from any sequestration funding cuts during the 2012–13 school year Read More >
New Community School Gets Started With Home Visits
07/24/12
Things are looking different at Highland Elementary School in the Gresham Barlow School District in Multnomah County, Oregon this school year. The school is starting an ambitious effort to turn around student outcomes. Key to their turn around, Highland is becoming a SUN Community School Read More >
Public Education Champion Lisa Villarreal Named Coalition's Steering Committee Chair
07/18/12
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Coalition Participates in the Launch of Grade-Level Reading Campaign
07/18/12
Earlier this month the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Campaign for Grade-Level Reading convened two important and overlapping events which marked the official launch of the Grade-Level Reading Communities Network. The GLR Campaign is a collaborative effort of funders, nonprofit partners, states and communities across the nation devoted to dramatically increasing the number of children from low-income families reading proficiently by the end of third grade. Read More >
Community Schools Lead the Way in Early Childhood Education Practices
07/18/12
States across the country are bolstering their early childhood education programs largely due to an emergence of new research on the importance of development in the first years of life and the realization that improving early learning opportunities is critical to reading at grade level by the end of 3rd grade. Read More >
Young Elected Officials Take Note of the Community Schools Approach
07/17/12
The Coalition of Community Schools at the Institute of Educational Leadership was recently invited to speak to an audience of local, municipal and school board officials from around the country at the 2012 Young Elected Officials National Conference. Read More >
New York City Union and District Administrators Unite to Open Six Community Schools
07/03/12
The nation’s largest school district, New York City, is set to open six community schools next year. Read More >