The Annual Award Honors Advancing Student Literacy and Includes a School Library Makeover for Shirley Elementary

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The Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) has chosen 11 senior-level education administrators to participate in the fourth cohort of the Michael Casserly Urban Executive Leadership Institute for Superintendents.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23 – School board member Joyce Wilkerson of the School District of Philadelphia received recognition as the 2025 Urban Educator of the Year at the Council of the Great City Schools’ 69th Annual Fall Conference.

WASHINGTON, July 10 – Washoe County School District (WCSD) in Reno, Nevada, was recently awarded the “Informing Progress in Urban Education” award at the Council of the Great City Schools’ Curriculum, Research, and Instructional Leaders Meeting in Detroit. Sponsored by NWEA, this prestigious recognition honors WCSD for developing Insight, a groundbreaking early warning system driven by a fully homegrown, research-based predictive algorithm.

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 1 — The Council of the Great City Schools, the nation’s primary coalition of large urban public-school systems, calls on the U.S. Department of Education and the White House Office of Management and Budget to immediately release funding approved by Congress and signed into law by President Trump in March.

WASHINGTON, July 8 – Sonja Brookins Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, has been named the new chair of the Council of the Great City Schools’ Board of Directors for a one-year term, effective July 1.