In our surveys, 85 to 90 percent of these kids say they want to go to college. |
In smaller learning communities, students do better academically and socially. Students make better grades and graduation rates are a lot higher. |
The existing teachers will be assigned to these smaller learning communities and ISA will provide the framework of how the learning communities work. [We're also] making sure that the students in the large school are also being well served. |
The schools are the ones taking on the responsibility of restructuring, and we help set up the principles and model [for them to follow]. |
We have been working with the Union City Board of for about a year. I had delivered a keynote address at a National School Board Association conference, which Superintendent Stanley Sanger attended and followed up with me afterwards. |