Publisher's Synopsis
This volume summarizes the community school experiences of theChildren's Aid Society and Beacons in New York City and otherplaces; university assisted models in Philadelphia; school systemgenerated community schools in Chicago; communitywide councils inEvansville, Indiana, and Portland, Oregon; and Boston'sFull-Service Schools Roundtable. The efforts of the PublicEducation Network to build public will for collaboration andCalifornia's statewide Healthy Start Initiaitve show how it ispossible to expand the concepts over larger areas, and theCoalition for Community Schools provides the rationale for nationalcommunity school legislation.
This is the 107th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly reportseries New Directions for Youth Development.
