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School-Community Partnerships in Support of Student Learning: Taking a Second Look at the Governance of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program (published July 2001).
This report documents IEL's second look at the governance of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) Program and was funded by a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. The report is drawn from visits by IEL staff teams to four 21st CCLC program sites in the spring of 2000 - Denver (CO); Humphreys County (MS); Plainfield (NJ); and St. Louis (MO) - and includes a profile of each site. The visits allowed IEL to shed some light on the processes of establishing, maintaining, and repairing school-community partnerships. The report makes it clear that there is a powerful connection between governance arrangements and results/accomplishments. A final section of the report is designed to help interested school districts capitalize on the opportunity that is presented by the 21st CCLC initiative to create community schools. Cost: $5.
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