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Final Guidance and Applications Released!
The
competition is open to school districts and nonprofit partners working
with a district or consortium of schools. It will provide awards of up
to $55 million each. Applications are due in mid-May, with awards to be
made in September. Get
your application now!
16 Finalists Announced for Race
to the Top!
The
finalists - Colorado, Delaware, the District, Florida, Georgia,
Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Tennessee - will
by vying for the unprecedented $4b. The candidates will come
to
Washington later this month to make their pitches for part of the $4
billion pot of economic-stimulus grants. Read
more...
ED's
Office of Innovation and Improvement will Award $5m More for the FSCS
Grant Program!
The
FSCS grant application will be released on March 19, 2010.
All
applications will be due by May 3, 2010. They will award 8-10
new
grants. View
the guidelines and send us your comments before March 10th.
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.
Sec.
Duncan Discusses ESEA Reauthorization with Ed Week
View video below!
Access
the "Duncan Watch" Now!
Is
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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Learning Linked to Health? Yet another study
shows
that, yes, in fact a sick student will have barriers to learning. The
authors argue that there must be a coordinated effort address the
health disparities that impede learning for students from disadvantaged
groups. This study supports the work of community schools across the
nation that are working daily to address barriers of health and
learning. Find
out what they are doing....
Children’s
Aid Society Expands National Center for Community Schools
The
Children’s Aid Society’s National Center for Community Schools
(originally The National Technical Assistance Center for Community
Schools) has moved to new, larger, more centrally located headquarters
in Harlem and has just launched its new website, www.nationalcenterforcommunityschools.org.
Read the full press
release now!
Community
Schools Toolkit
- Community
Schools Fact Sheet - Do
you have questions about community schools? What they are? How they
function? This list of "Frequently Asked Questions" provides answers to
these and other questions. If you still have questions that weren't
answered, please email us at: ccs@iel.org.
- Community
Schools Across the Nation -
Today, there are a number of national models and local initiatives
that create their own flavor of community school. This brief provides
an overview of leading initiatives.
- Community
Schools Research Brief, 2009 - Community
schools across the nation purposefully integrate academic, health, and
social services; youth and community development; and community
engagement—drawing in school partners with resources to improve student
and adult learning, strengthen families, and promote healthy
communities. This research brief highlights results from various
community school initiatives.
- Using
Title I for Community Schools - This
brief provides State and Local Title I Directors with a deeper
understanding of the allowable uses of Title I funding for community
schools. Community schools are centers of the community that support
student learning and healthy development, and strengthen families and
communities.
- For more of the
Coalition's publications, click
here.
- In his own words...What
is Secretary Duncan saying about community schools? Click
here to find out!
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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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Funding
Opportunities
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 Public
Education Network's list of current grants:
http://www.publiceducation.org/newsblast_grants.asp
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