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Download full textMcAfee, Michael; Torre, Mauricio – Voices in Urban Education, 2015
In this article, Michael McAfee and Mauricio Torre reflect on the successes and challenges of the Promise Neighborhoods movement as it works toward education equity, and on what it takes to effect large-scale, sustainable change for low-income communities and communities of color. Together they discuss the Chula Vista Promise Neighborhood project…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Improvement, Success, Programs, Equal Education
Center for Education Organizing (NJ1), 2012
Over the past two decades, community organizing has emerged as an effective force for school improvement. In the context of shrinking education funding, stubborn opportunity and achievement gaps between low-income and wealthy children and between children of color and White children, and polarizing debate on school reform, community organizing…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Educational Change, Community Organizations
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1974
In January 1970, the Department of Labor restructured its Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) out-of-school program and made age limits for entering the program more restrictive. Education, skill training, and work experience were emphasized. The restructured NYC-2 program was carried out in urban or growth areas, but the original NYC-1 program was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Organizations, Dropout Programs, Federal Programs
Gittell, Marilyn; Tainsh, Paul – 1984
This report focuses on the new intergovernmental relationships developing between cities, States and the Federal government as funds are "block granted." The first chapter discusses the historical background of federalism and the redistributive role of government, and puts the "new federalism" in perspective. The following…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Case Studies, Community Involvement, Community Organizations
Central California Action Associates, Inc., Fresno. – 1969
The Central California Action Associates, Inc. (CCAA Inc.) was funded under the Migrant Division of the Office of Economic Opportunity to help farm workers solve their problems. The 7-county area has been characterized by high agricultural wealth and a low wage scale when compared to the surrounding cosmopolitan areas. The minimal education level…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Agricultural Laborers
Batt, Rosemary; Osterman, Paul – 1993
Selected state and local experiments in developing/supporting workplace-centered training programs were analyzed to identify issues relevant to developing a national policy for workplace training. Intensive case studies of state economic development/training programs in California and Illinois and the employment and training programs provided by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Case Studies, Community Colleges
