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Growing School Community Partnerships — Some Case Studies

I previously mentioned the book Future Search in School District Change -– Connection, Community and Results.

One of the foci of the case studies in that book is School Community Partnerships including:

• In the North Platte, New England School District, the community agreed to focus on “schools as centres”. The participants mobilised the community, established the program, and received over $1.5 million in federal and foundation grants.

• In Deauville, Illinois, stakeholders built community collaborations to support quality education and succeeding in passing a school referendum that had previously failed.

• In both Sander Gabriel, California School District and Minneapolis, Minnesota School District with the community focused on health care with the belief that healthy students make good learners. Both districts built coalitions with the local government, health-care professionals and local hospitals to increase health services to students and their families.

We will feature each of these case studies in future posts, but if you want to find out more now, get the book.

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