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Coalition
Applauds the President's FY 2011 Budget!
The focus of President Obama’s budget for the Department of Education
on Supporting Student
Success strengthens the work of community
schools. Read the full
press release.
Check
out ED's FY 2011 Budget!
The budget reforms the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program
to focus funding on models that redesign and extend the school day,
week, or year to provide additional time for students to engage in
academic and enrichment activities, as well as on programs that support
full-service community schools that coordinate access to comprehensive
services. Read
more...
Secretary
Duncan Visits Carlin Springs Community School in Virginia
Sec. Duncan, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius, U.S.
Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, and Congressman Jim Moran, presented a
united front at Carlin
Springs Elementary School - supporting the H1N1 flu
vaccine. This
community school
provides access to a range of health, mental health,
and dental services through community partners. Read
more...
Secretary
Duncan makes connection between community schools and the economy
At
a U.S. Chamber of Commerce meeting, “Economic Security and a 21st
Century Education,” Duncan said, “I'm a big believer in community
schools... Give the community the key to the school and you give our
children the key to so much more—exploration and enrichment, safety
opportunity and hope. It becomes the center of their lives.” Read full
article...
Sec.
Duncan Discusses ESEA Reauthorization with Ed Week
Accompanying
Sec.Duncan to the meeting, Carmel Martin, Assistant Secretary for
Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development at the Dept. of Ed noted,
"the new version of the ESEA should also include a focus on students’
nonacademic needs,including health and safety, and making schools into
community centers." Read
more... or view video below!
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the "Duncan Watch" Now!
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Secretary Duncan visiting your town? Let us know so that we can be on
the watch
and include any community schools media that is generated in our next
newsletter!
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Community
Schools Watch!!
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Schools
in Milwaukee and Boston Focus on Children and Families
This
article illustrates the importance of building and
strengthening
the schools' relationships with their parents and community -
not
just the students. Community schools in Milwaukee and Boston
are accomplishing this is by partnering with outside agencies
and
organizations to provide services to the parents and other community
residents. As one school board member puts it, "All schools should be
working on what their communities need."
Principal
in Milwaukee uses Community School Strategy Turn Around Low Performing
School
Crane
took over Ford School in 1989. At that time, it was the
lowest-achieving school in the city. Daily attendance ranged from 75%
to 85%. Meanwhile, only between 10% and 20% of parents showed up at
parent-teacher conferences. Each year, a third of the faculty turned
over.
"Saying
Yes" to Community Schools in Syracuse, NY
“Saying
Yes in Syracuse,”an article in American Prospect Magazine,
highlights how schools cannot alone prepare students for college and/or
careers. In Syracuse, only half of the 4th graders meet state
standards for reading and the same high school students finish on time.
To combat this dismal data, a partnership between Syracuse University
and Say Yes to Education ( a nonprofit) is creating community schools
to addresses students’ barriers to learning.
Read
more community schools' news...
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Schools Toolkit
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Michigan
Gains Momentum Around Community Schools and Chronic Absenteeism
A pilot in Kent County community
schools is showing
signs of reducing absenteeism and boosting student achievement. With a
$6 million grant from Network
180,
the Kent Intermediate School District hopes to introduce the Community
Schools strategy in another 12 schools the next two years. Read
more... and view a video
about how Kent County is addressing chronic absence.
Join
the Coalition’s
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A
Glimpse into Chicago
Community Schools...
Community
Schools Videos
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Research,
Publications, & Tools
The
Pivotal Role of Title I in Community Schools
Community
schools offer an innovative and results-based approach to public
education that improves teaching and learning in schools. Community
schools operate on key principles consistent with the provisions of
Title I, including the law’s emphasis on parental involvement. In fact,
the U.S. Department of Education (ED) explicitly listed community
school strategies as an allowable use of Title I stimulus dollars in
recent guidance. Learn more about how school districts across the
nation have used Title I to foster a variety of approaches in community
schools. Read
more...
Community
Groups Spur Education Reform
A recent Annenberg study finds strong evidence that community
organizing Coalition
Publication:
High Schools as Community Schools
The Coalition for
Community Schools in partnership with the National Association for
Secondary
School Principals reviewed 8 community schools (Bronx, NY;
Chicago, IL; Cincinnati, OH; Indianapolis, IN; Philadelphia, PA;
Portland, OR; and Tukwila, WA) to learn their effects on graduation and
drop-out rates. They found rising graduation and
college going rates and a decrease in drop-out rates. The report also
finds that community schools strengths lie in their local communities.
Learn
more about these schools are succeeding...
Community
Schools and Community Colleges
Alliances between community colleges and community schools—which work
with multiple organizations to provide an array of services and support
to children, families and the community—offer a unique opportunity for
both institutions to better serve their service areas. Read
more...
Urban
Education Reform: Community Schools Gathering Steam
NEW
report, by the National League of Cities, The State of City Leadership for
Children and Families, notes that community
schools fit
the Obama administration’s
philosophy of educating the whole child. The
report shows the progress cities (e.g. Baltimore, Tulsa, Lincoln, and
Portland) have made and the potential for future action
as municipal leaders identify and share promising practices to improve
the lives of children, youth and families.
Read more of the Ed
Daily coverage... (Ed Daily is an LRP
publication.)
Neighborhoods
and the Black-White Mobility Gap
This
report released by Pew Charitable Trust finds that neighborhood poverty
alone accounts for a greater portion of the black-white downward
mobility gap than the effects of parental education, occupation, labor
force participation, and a range of other family characteristics
combined. Neighbhorhoods play an important role in education because
the quality of educational opportunities depends directly on where one
lives.
A merican
Educator's most recent
issue, Surrounded by Support,
spotlights Community Schools! Community school
leaders: Richard
Rothstein, Ira Harkavy, Jane Quinn, Joy Dryfoos, Marty Blank, and more,
assert that
coordinated partnerships between communities and schools is key to
offering services to youth, families, and communities.
Re-tooling
HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government: a Report to Secretary Donovan
Chapter 8 of this report outlines a new role for HUD, serving as a
facilitator and catalyst (inter-governmental at the Federal, state and
local levels, and with local, city and regional institutions) for
comprehensive anchor institution-community collaborations in cities and
metropolitan regions, focused on housing, economic and community
development, healthcare, schools, and culture.
Parsing
the Achievement Gap II
This Policy Information Report follows up on a 2003 report Parsing the Achievement Gap:
Baselines for Tracking Progress.
The updated report identifies 16 factors related to academic
performance ranging from birth weight and hunger to lead poisoning,
parental involvement, and teacher quality. The report concludes that
while a few of the gaps in achievement have narrowed, overall, there
has not been much progress.
Click
here to access
more publications and tools!
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Opportunities
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Education Network's list of current grants:
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