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    Supporting America's Great City Schools: A Summary of Member Benefits, Services, and Products
     
    A summary of membership benefits of the Council of the Great City Schools.
    28 pages
    September 2022
     
     
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    Cyber-Security in Today’s K12-Environment
     
    Technology has ushered in a new era for teaching and learning in classrooms from kindergarten through high school, with digital learning tools now an integral part of the K-12 environment. This white paper outlines key considerations for establishing secure environments, particularly for the large urban school districts that are part of the Council of the Great City Schools.
    40 pages
    October 2017
     
     
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    FGM/C Prevention: A Resource for U.S. Schools- Printer Friendly Version
     
    The latest estimate from the Centers for Disease Control indicate that in 2012 there were over half a million (512,000) young women and girls at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C), the partial or total removal of a girl's external genitalia. The Council of the Great City Schools has partnered with Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation to create this resource guide for U.S. school staff to support the prevention of this dangerous non-medical surgical procedure.
    19 pages
    July 2017
     
     
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    FGM/C Prevention: A Resource for U.S. Schools
     
    The latest estimate from the Centers for Disease Control indicate that in 2012 there were over half a million (512,000) young women and girls at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C), the partial or total removal of a girl's external genitalia. The Council of the Great City Schools has partnered with Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation to create this resource guide for U.S. school staff to support the prevention of this dangerous non-medical surgical procedure.
    19 pages
    July 2017
     
     
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    How We Help America's Urban Public Schools
     
    A summary of membership benefits of the Council of the Great City Schools
    28 pages
    October 2017
     
     
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    Internal Auditing in the Great City Schools
     
    The objective of this “white paper” is to describe best practices in internal auditing and demonstrate the value that an internal audit function brings to a school district.
    32 pages
    October 2017
     
     
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    Enterprise Risk Management in the Great City Schools
     
    The challenge for members of the Council of the Great City Schools is to identify best practices in managing risk, referred to in this paper as Enterprise Risk Management or ERM. The purpose of this white paper is to present key concepts of ERM and enhance the understanding of how to apply ERM to a K-12 public school setting.
    24 pages
    May 2016
     
     
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    Public Partners for Early Literacy: Library-School Partnerships Closing Opportunity Gaps
     
    This call-to-action publication results from a National Forum on Closing the Opportunity Gap for Early Readers, led by the Urban Libraries Council in partnership with the Council of the Great City Schools. The national forum focused on identifying areas of opportunity, gaps in knowledge, and strategic library-school school-community partnerships that lead to increased access to public library learning opportunities for low-income, at-risk, K-3rd grade students.
    28 pages
    2016