If you were unable to visit the 2012 City Showcase at the Congress of Cities and Exposition in Boston, you can still learn about the 27 innovative, successful programs selected for the City Showcase. These programs adopted innovative approaches to improving the quality of life in their communities, and can provide ideas for how your community can build on existing initiatives or develop new solutions to address the challenges your city may face.
NLC members will call on Congress to act quickly to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) at the Congressional City Conference in Washington. At a session on Tuesday, March 12, Mayor Christopher Coleman of St. Paul, MN, will lead a discussion about the importance of high quality education systems to local public safety and economic growth, and emphasize the need for federal action.
ICMA-RC, an NLC Capstone Corporate Partner, is now accepting applications for its ICMA-RC Vantagepoint Public Employee Memorial Scholarship Fund (ICMA-RC Memorial Scholarship Fund), which provides financial assistance for postsecondary education to the surviving children and spouses of local and state government employees.
Donna Zajonc will serve as a presenter for the interactive Leadership Training Seminar, “Making Shifts Happen: From Political Drama to Finding Common Ground,” at the Congressional City Conference in March. She writes about the need to find common ground to create practical solutions that meet the needs of the many rather than the few.
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In December 2011, while on patrol in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, Marine Lance Corporal Christian Brown stepped on an explosive device that took both of his legs, one above the knee and the other below his hip, as well as a part of his right index finger. Hours later, in an acute care facility in Germany, a member of his church from Munford, Tenn. was already by his side. It would be an early indication that the citizens of Munford, with the support of the city’s leaders, would play an important role in LCpl. Brown’s recovery process.
With support from the Open Society Foundations Campaign for Black Male Achievement and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, NLC recently convened local leaders from 18 cities to discuss two new initiatives to expand opportunities for young men of color.
NLC First Vice President Chris Coleman, mayor of St. Paul, MN, addressed more than 500 national and community leaders who gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., for the release of a groundbreaking new compendium of studies on the impact of quality afterschool and summer learning programs.
NLC First Vice President Chris Coleman, mayor, St. Paul, MN, spoke at the launch of a new publication highlighting the success of afterschool programming today at the National Press Club. Standing with other national and local leaders in the education and afterschool fields, Coleman stressed the importance of collaboration among city, school district and community partners to support afterschool opportunities.
Comprehensive immigration reform took a giant step forward last week with the introduction of bipartisan framework released in the Senate and an immigration reform proposal released by President Obama in Las Vegas. Both proposals closely match NLC's comprehensive immigration reform policy and NLC applauds these important first moves in what is expected to be a lengthy and difficult process.
Dr. Frank Luntz, celebrated pollster and political consultant, will address conference attendees at this year's Congressional City Conference in Washington this March. Luntz will speak to conference attendees at the opening general session on March 11, 2013. Luntz's insight and expertise on communication is critical now as NLC leaders seek to influence the national policy debate, both in Washington and throughout the country.
