There are so many stories about community schools that are changing how people perceive what public schools can be. We’re sharing a series of four films showing how this has happened in Cincinnati ever since 2001, when Cincinnati passed a school board policy to turn all of their schools into community schools, called Community Learning Centers. By 2006, nine schools had hired site coordinators, done needs assessments with the local communities, and brought partners into the schools. Today, all of their schools are community schools. Research from 2006-2015 shows a move to community schools resulted in significant improvements. The achievement gap between Black and white students was reduced from 14.5% to 4.5%.

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