CGCS in the News

The Council of the Great City Schools has been cited in numerous publications throughout the nation. Here is some of the print coverage the Council has received.

Newspaper Articles

• New York Times: Panel Proposes Single Standards for All Schools (March 10, 2010)
  
  
• Washington Post: Governors, state school superintendents to propose common academic standards (March 10, 2010)
  
  
• Associated Press: Duncan: Schools Must Improve to Get Stimulus Money (March 16, 2009)
  
  
• Education Week: Urban Districts Compare Notes on Operation (February 10, 2009)
  
  
• Education Week: Program Lets Urban Districts Call Shots on Research (November 6, 2008)
  
  
• Associated Press: New Chief Seeks DC Schools Fix Where Others Failed (August 24, 2008)
  
  
• Birmingham Times: Board to Hire Chief First, Then Reform (July 23, 2008)
  
  
• New York Times: U.S. Eases 'No Child' Law as Applied to Some States (March 19, 2008)
  
  
• Washington Post: New Program to Take Early Action to Help Those Failing (March 19, 2008)
  
  
• Washington Post: U.S. Eases 'No Child' Sanctions (March 19, 2008)
  
  
• Washington Post: Divided Court Limits Use of Race by School Districts (June 29, 2007)
  
  
• Education Week: Districts Face Uncertainty in Maintaining Racially Diverse Schools (June 28,2007)
  
  
• Education Week: Benchmarks to Allow Urban School Districts to Track Business Side (May 2, 2007)
  
  
• Nation's Cities Weekly: Urban Schools Advance in Making the Grade (April 30, 2007)
  
  
• Baltimore Sun: Universities Uneven as Guardians of Schools (April 27, 2007)
  
  
• US Mayor: Big Cities School Districts Show Significant Progress on Student Performance, Achievement Gaps (April 23, 2007)  
  
  
• Education Week: Big Districts Improve Reading, Math Scores (April 18, 2007)
  
  
• The New York Times: Hopes for a Renaissance After Exodus in St. Louis (April 17, 2007)
  
  
• The Birmingham News: 4th-, 8th-graders Outpace Urban Schools, Report Says (April 13, 2007)
  
  
• Salt Lake Tribune: SLC Shows Progress in Inner-City School Study (April 12, 2007)
  
  
• Sun-Sentinel: Broward Students Noted for Higher Scores on State Test (April 12, 2007)
  
  
• Palm Beach Post: County Schools Lauded in 'Beat Odds' Report (April 12, 2007)
  
  
• Ed Daily: Urban Academic Progress Still Subpar, Study Finds (April 12, 2007)
  
  
• Miami Herald: More S. Florida Students are Making the Grade (April 12, 2007)
  
  
• Orlando Sentinel: Report Lauds School District (April 12, 2007)
  
  
• Albuquerque Tribune: Albuquerque Kids do Better Than State Average in Tests, Study Shows (April 12, 2007)
  
  
• Virginian-Pilot: National Report Praises Norfolk Schools for Progress on Tests (April 12, 2007)
  
  
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Study Shows City Schools Test Scores are Improving (April 12, 2007)
  
  
• Memphis Commercial Appeal: City Schools Close Test Gap (April 12, 2007)
  
  
• Oakland Tribune: Students in Oakland Catch Up, Reading, Math Scores Rise Amid Turmoil (April 12, 2007)
  
  
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: MPS has Ups, Downs in Urban Ranking (April 11, 2007)
  
  
• The New York Times: Battle Grows Over Renewing Landmark Education Law (April 7, 2007)
  
  
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Roosevelt's Contract a Vote of Confidence (March 22, 2007)
  
  
• The New York Times: Fighting Over When Public Should Pay Private Tuition for Disabled (March 21, 2007)
  
  
• The Christian Science Monitor: Next Round Begins for No Child Left Behind (January 8, 2007)  

Columns and Editorials

• City schoolkids are gaining - without a doubt (December 11, 2009)
  
  
• Can't Anbody Here Run a School? Washington Post, (September 7, 2008)
  
  
• City Schools At Key Juncture, The Birmingham News (March 9, 2008)
  
  
• Leaving No Local Child Behind, Washington Post (September 10, 2007)
  
  
• Richmond Schools Make Progress, Richmond-Times Dispatch (September 4, 2007)
  
  
• Philadelphia's Public Schools, What's been done, and still to be done?, The Philadelphia Inquirer (April 8, 2007)
  
  
• A History Lesson for Mayor Fenty, Washington Post (March 24, 2007)
  
  
• The Case for National Standards in American Education, Education Week (March 5, 2007)
  
• If Fenty Gets the Schools, Does He Have a Plan?, Washington Post (February 24, 2007)
  
  
• Why the Mayor Shouldn't Take Over D.C.'s Schools, Washington Post (November 26, 2006)
  
  
• Big-City Schools Begin to Ascend in Achievement, Nation's Cities Weekly,  (August 9, 2004)
  
  
• Fixing D.C.'s Failing Schools, Washington Post (December 26, 2003)
  
  
• "Improved Scores Show Detroit Schools on Right Track", The Detroit News, October 14, 2003)
  
  
• "Can Big City Schools Be Improved?" Nation's Cities Weekly (February 3, 2003)
  
  
• Can the Bush School Plan Work? Education Week (December 4, 2002)

Public Statements

• Remarks by Michael Casserly, Executive Director of the Council of the Great City Schools at American Enterprise Institute Conference on "A Penny Saved." (January 11, 2010)
  
  
• Open Letter to the Next President of the United States (October 22, 2008)
  
  
• Remarks by Michael Casserly, Executive Director of the Council of the Great City Schools at Press Conference on Urban NAEP 2007 Writing Results (April 3, 2008)
  
  
• Remarks by Michael Casserly, Executive Director of the the Council of the Great City Schools at Press Conference to Release Urban NAEP 2007 Results (November 15, 2007)
  
  
• Read journalist Bill Moyers' Remarks at Council Fall Conference (October 27, 2006)
  
  
• The Council and National Civil Rights Groups Condemn Nebraska Law to Segregate Omaha Public Schools (May 16, 2006)
  
   
• U.S. Secretary of Education Praises Urban Schools (March 20, 2006)  

Advertorials

• USA Today: Urban Schools Can Close the Racial Gaps (October 14, 1999)
  
  
• USA Today: Small Steps to Big Leaps: Urban Students Gain (May 19, 1999)
  
  
• USA Today: Victory in the Urban Classroom (December 23, 1998)