The Chicago Teachers Union is pushing for a major expansion of the Sustainable Community Schools (SCS) model, proposing to increase the number from 20 to 200 over the next four years. This shift could ...

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Mayor Brandon Johnson and his appointed school board have moved to embrace the Chicago Teachers Union agenda to move toward what they call the Sustainable Community Schools model. It includes a ...

Los Angeles’s public Community Schools are a model to support fights to protect public education and experiment with co-governance. As we fight authoritarianism, we cannot cede government to a ...

Schools don't operate in a silo—events in students' lives before and after school can have a big effect on how well they perform in school. To help address issues facing students related to the ...

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan listens as Eric McRae, the community schools site facilitator at John Adams Middle School, speaks about the community room during a tour of the school Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in ...

Oklahoma’s dismal bottom 10 rank in education outcomes highlights a need to think differently about how we’re educating our children who continue to struggle with academic performance, chronic ...

Broadcast version by Kathryn Carley for New England News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration On‑site child care before and after school. Pantries ...

Malik Shegog, the Pittsburgh Area Community Schools site manager at Aliquippa High School. Instead of desks, bookshelves, and stacks of paper and pencils, one Aliquippa High School classroom now ...

Sixteen schools across Chicago will be receiving extra funding for family support and education resources as part of the city's Sustainable Community Schools model. A sustainable community school is a ...

The State Board of Education today approved its fourth and final round of grants to implement the community school model. There will be 458 more schools receiving $618 million, according to a media ...