Not all urban school districts have bold leadership that can help them overcome the odds, even with strong state-level support. State leaders must be willing to make alternative provisions for ...

Urban school districts are among least integrated. Meanwhile, ... Bethune, a school in the Near North neighborhood of Minneapolis, has 95 percent minority enrollment.

Overhauling a Major Urban School System In 1998, the San Diego City Schools launched one of the nation’s most ambitious efforts in school reform. Superintendent Alan Bersin, former U.S. Attorney ...

Media Urban charter schools bode success for low-income, non-Whites, college enrollment: Report 'These are school models that can change young people's lives,' said Sarah Cohodes, associate ...

Urban Prep, like my former school, emerged during the “Renaissance 2010” reform movement that was a brainchild of then-Mayor Richard M. Daley and then-CPS CEO Arne Duncan.