• September 30, 2012

    CPS Community Learning Centers Restore the Social Compact

    Huffington Post / September 25, 2012 Beyond Chicago What has made the Cincinnati model work so well? Steve Means, who attended the Study Tour for the U.S. Department of Education, characterized the initiative as having “restored the social compact,” and… Read More

  • September 27, 2012

    Schiff Early Learning Center Part of Oyler Community Approach

    New America Foundation / September 26, 2012 On September 13, I visited the Oyler School in Cincinnati, a pre-K-12 public school that serves a high-poverty community known as the Urban Appalachian, made up of families who migrated to Ohio from… Read More

  • September 20, 2012

    Community Learning Centers on Talk of the Town

    CitiCable / September, 2012  P.G. Sittenfeld, City Council Member and host of radio and cable tv program “Talk of the Town” featured a conversation about community learning centers with Eve Bolton, President of the Cincininati Public Schools Board of Education,… Read More

  • September 19, 2012

    Cincinnati Community Learning Centers held up as model reform

    Chicago Tribune / September 15, 2012 Strike highlights split over poverty’s role in learning The reform movement has enjoyed a powerful wave of bi-partisan political support in recent years, from President Barack Obama on down. Yet in a few corners… Read More