This report examines staffing and agency collaboration, discipline policies and practices, security polices and practices, and other school culture factors in six safety model schools and compares them to schools with punitive school safety and discipline measures. In coordination with the release of the study in July, a press conference was held at the Julia Richman Education Complex in Manhattan to draw public attention to the study findings and to highlight the successful school models....
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This guide describes a brief, focused data-collection protocol that can help districts plan for successful changes in leadership or programming. The review is a means for recognizing accomplishments and acknowledging weaknesses that enables leaders to build on their system's strengths. The protocol guides participants through a five-step process for establishing a clear timeframe and defining a specific focus for the review, creating a research design and collecting relevant data, and...
The Annenberg Institute prepared this report to assist New York State in improving the accuracy and efficiency of its data collection on homeless students, required by both the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act and New York State law as a first step to ensuring that these students do not encounter barriers to school attendance and educational success. The report offers specific recommendations to strengthen New York State's data-collection system to provide a more accurate...
This report looks at five cities where mayors have engaged the public and built civic capacity around education reform, using the leverage of their office in strategic ways. The stories of Denver, Akron, Long Beach, Nashville, and New York identify and describe practical, high-yield strategies and solutions mayors are using and resources they have found or created. The report also includes an annotated list of resources for municipal leaders on public engagement in support of schools....
The Annenberg Institute has gathered texts from three of the key presenters at the Collective Bargaining conference (December 2006) into one volume that offers their distinct perspectives on the issues in collective bargaining. Includes opening presentation by Andrew J. Rotherham and interviews with Alan Bersin Former California Secretary of Education and Randi Weingarten, President, United Federation of Teachers, New York City.