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Urban Schools Launch Purchasing Consortium
The Council has formed a purchasing consortium to spur the production of better instructional materials for English-language learners. (Click headline for more info)
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Five Urban School Districts Win SAT Practice Challenge
Five urban school districts have won the 2017 Official SAT Practice All In Challenge. (Click headline for more info)
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Council Develops Guide For High-Quality District Curriculum
Supporting Excellence is a framework that provides instructional leaders and staff with a core set of criteria for what a high-quality curriculum entails. (Click the headline for more info)
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Library-School Partnerships Closing Opportunity Gaps
Partnership calls upon leaders of public library systems and school systems to expand access to library literacy resources. (Click headline for more info)
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New Leadership At Council to Begin
Superintendent Darienne Driver of the Milwaukee Public Schools becomes chair of the Council of the Great City Schools’ Board of Directors. (Click the headline for more info)
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June/July Urban Educator
Read how a homeless teen in Fresno is headed to college (Click the headline for more info)
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Council Creates New Resource Guide
This document provides strategies schools and districts can use to prevent female genital mutilation (Click the headline for more info)
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Council Honors Math, Science Scholars
Four graduating urban high school seniors have been selected by the Council to receive the 2017 ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Math and Science Scholarship. (Click headline for more info)
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Council Opposes Medicaid Cuts
Read the letter the Council wrote to the U.S. Senate opposing cuts to the federal Medicaid program for poor students and students with disabilities. (Click headline for more info)
