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ERIC Number: ED586285
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jun
Pages: 10
Abstractor: ERIC
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Citywide Education Progress Report: Camden
Center on Reinventing Public Education
The Citywide Education Progress Reports evaluate how a city is doing across three goals: (1) The education system should be continuously improving; (2) All students should have access to a high-quality education; and (3) The education strategy should be rooted in the community. Across each goal, indicators are presented of system reforms and outcomes. These city reports focus on education strategies for the 2017-18 school year. Analyses reflect developments through June 2018, and these are updates to the original reports from the 2016-17 school year. To understand how well cities are doing, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) used state and federal data to track school improvement, graduation rates, and student access to high-quality schools. To understand city strategies and identify early progress, interviews, surveys, public documents, and news articles from 2014-2015 to the present were relied upon. This analysis uses data for district and charter schools to look at all schools within municipal boundaries, rather than just one sector or district. Since a state takeover in 2013, Camden has undergone a number of changes to improve the quality of schools and family access to different school options. A cornerstone of this strategy has been the city's Renaissance schools, neighborhood schools operated in partnership with high-quality charter operators. Over the past several years, Camden has also invested in a unified enrollment system, intensive community outreach, and differentiated support for traditional district schools. Early results of Camden's reforms have been promising, but the city's education, nonprofit, and civic leaders must push forward on improving the quality of all schools--district, charter, and Renaissance--while maintaining families as key partners in the strategy. [For the main report, "Stepping Up: How Are American Cities Delivering on the Promise of Public School Choice?," see ED578178.]
Center on Reinventing Public Education. University of Washington Bothell Box 358200, Seattle, WA 98195. Tel: 206-685-2214; Fax: 206-221-7402; e-mail: crpe@u.washington.edu; Web site: http://www.crpe.org
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE)
Identifiers - Location: New Jersey
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