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Did You Know?
Urban schools are achieving a number of successes.
- For the first time in comparing state and federal test scores, a study, Beating the Odds, finds parallel upward achievement in the nation’s urban public schools, prompting the U.S. secretary of education to note, “The Great City Schools are raising achievement in many ways, for many students.”
- Nine of the top 10 school districts in the nation to produce the largest number of National Board Certified Teachers in 2006 are members of the Council of the Great City Schools.
- An urban schools superintendent, Manuel Rivera of New York’s Rochester City School District, was named the 2006 National Superintendent of the Year by the American Association of School Administrators.
- The average tenure of urban school superintendents is now about 3.1 years – nearly one year longer than its was in 1999.
- The Council of the Great City Schools is the nation’s first group of education officials to endorse the development of national academic standards in mathematics, science and reading.
- The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools finds overall crime trends in urban schools on a steady decline.
- A study, Charter, Private, Public Schools and Academic Achievement: New Evidence from NAEP Mathematics Data, finds that private and charter schools don’t do as well educating students than urban public schools when students’ economic background, race, ethnicity and English language proficiency are held constant.
- The Council of Great City Schools largely stands alone among education groups in supporting the federal No Child Left Behind Act to demonstrate commitment to accountability.
- Luminaries such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Walter Cronkite and Oprah Winfrey are alumni of America’s Great City Schools.
 
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