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Local YMCAs are organizing community schools around the country using the assets of entire communities to better prepare their children and families for success. "Beyond the Basics" highlights community schools, showing the positive results that such an approach produces. The first YMCA community school, Stevenson YMCA in Long Beach, was created 10 years ago.
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Education Leadership Magazine highlights the Thomas Edison Elementary School, a school in our Local Community School Network. Principal Eileen Santiago and Joanne Ferrara from Manhattanville College discuss how Thomas Edison works with local partners to provide comprehensive services to their students, and raise student achievement.
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This booklet contains 26 profiles of community schools and describes ways in which different community schools and states are approaching the development of community schools.
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This report identifies the major types, purposes, and strategies of a national cross-section of twenty school-community initiatives, and explores the dynamics of implementing, sustaining and expanding these initiatives across several key dimensions, including governance, site coordination and staffing, financing, and accountability.
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