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 High School Reform Publications and Resources
- Education City Examples (New!) - Under the guidance of NLC's School Improvement Task Force, chaired by St. Petersburg, Fla., Mayor Rick Baker, the YEF Institute has compiled a series of city examples showcasing municipal leadership in education in cities throughout the country.
These links highlight innovative local practices in the following areas: afterschool, business partnerships, career and technical education, community schools and joint use agreements, high school reform, high school to college transition, improving public schools, parent involvement, public engagement, safety and youth violence prevention, school funding, school readiness, and teacher and administrator recruitment.
- Action Kit on Improving Public Schools - This action kit outlines a wide range of ways that municipal leaders, working in partnership with school officials and the community as a whole, can help ensure that our public schools work for all children.
- Setting the Stage for New High Schools: Municipal Leadership in Supporting High School Alternatives outlines seven key policy conditions that facilitate the expansion of alternatives and options for dropouts and other students who struggle in traditional high school settings, as well as promising collaborations among mayors, school district officials, and alternative high schools program innovators.
- Stronger Schools, Stronger Cities - The first in a series of "Lessons Learned" reports from the YEF Institute's technical assistance projects, this report shows insights and strategies from the six cities that participated in the Municipal Leadership in Education technical assistance project.
- Public Engagement Watch - This resource, sponsored by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform in collaboration with the YEF Institute, assists municipal leaders in building strong connections with local public schools.
- Special Report: Engaging Cities in Education - This report summarizes five case studies conducted by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University in cooperation with NLC, which highlight mayoral leadership in mobilizing communities to improve public schools.
- 2007 City Education Snapshots provide a glimpse of how 30 cities are partnering with local school districts to improve education. The snapshots provide an overview of city initiatives to support student academic achievement, the top challenges faced by each city, partnerships with school districts, and school governance structures. The document also includes contact information for the Education Policy Advisors Network (EPAN) member who responded to the survey on which the snapshots are based.
Webcasts
- Dropout Recovery as a Local Economic Development Strategy - This webcast of a forum co-sponsored by the YEF Institute, the American Youth Policy Forum, and National City Network in Sept. 2006 features the efforts of Montgomery County, Ohio, and Baltimore, Md., to reconnect out-of-school youth to education and employment training.
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- So You Don't Run the Schools - This webcast of a workshop held on Dec. 9, 2005, at the Congress of Cities in Charlotte, N.C., focuses on how mayors and councilmembers can be strong partners in improving the quality of education in their communities, even if they do not have a role in the governance of public schools.
Web Seminar Recordings
Audioconference Transcripts
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