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Staff from the Centre for Shared Education have been invited to California to attend a Colloquium for the Los Angeles Promised Neighborhood Schools programme (LAPN).
The Promise Neighborhoods Initiative is President Obama’s signature education and poverty program to transform schools and communities into vibrant centers of opportunity and excellence. The Youth Policy Institute (YPI) is the lead agency for the Los Angeles Promise Neighborhood and was awarded a $30 million grant by the U.S. Department of Education in December 2012. The Promise Neighborhood is transforming 19 neighborhood schools into full-service community schools while opening six Promise Neighborhood Centers and dozens of satellite centers. More than 60 partners have signed on to the collaboration and all partners will be sharing data through the groundbreaking Efforts-to-Outcome data system.
Having attended the Sharing Education Programme conference in July colleagues from The Education Success Project and Loyola Marymount University felt that the collaborative approach of the Sharing Education Programme could provide clear lessons and practical examples for schools in the US. Dr Maureen Kindel from the Education success Project said that “frankly, we know of no other project than SEP that has gone out into the field and can say that 150 schools are collaborating because of their work.”
Mark Baker and Dr Gavin Duffy will be attending the conference and taking the opportunity to visit schools in Los Angeles that are in the early stages of collaboration. Professor Tony Gallagher has been involved with the LAPN since its inception and will be involved in presenting by video link.
Further information in the Los Angeles Promis Neighborhood can be found at http://www.ypiusa.org/lapn/