Huffington Post / August 17, 2012
NYTimes / August 19, 2012
What Matters Most
In Cincinnati, our local affiliate and its community and district partners have created schools that put in place the conditions all students need for success, particularly at-risk and low-income students. Every public school in Cincinnati offers students and their families access to wraparound services, including health and mental health services, tutoring, counseling and after-school programs. Student mobility, which can be so disruptive to a child’s education, is down. Discipline referrals have dropped sharply — keeping students in school, learning. And Cincinnati is the first and only urban district in the state to receive an “effective” rating — ranking 13th out of Ohio’s 609 districts on a state academic index.