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

• Education Week: Big-City Test Scores on Rise, Report Says (March 22, 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)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
  
• 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 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)
  
  
  
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Roosevelt's Contract a Vote of Confidence (March 22, 2007)
  
  
  
• The Christian Science Monitor: Next Round Begins for No Child Left Behind (January 8, 2007)  

Columns and Editorials

• Real Progress in Atlanta's Public Schools, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (July 6, 2010)
  
  
• City schoolkids are gaining - without a doubt, NY Daily News (December 11, 2009)
  
  
• City Schools At Key Juncture, The Birmingham News (March 9, 2008)
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• The Case for National Standards in American Education, Education Week (March 5, 2007)
  
  
• Big-City Schools Begin to Ascend in Achievement, Nation's Cities Weekly,  (August 9, 2004)
  
  
• "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

• Statement by Michael Casserly Executive on the 2010 D.C Public Schools Test Scores (July 13, 2010)
  
  
• Remarks by Michael Casserly at Press Conference on Urban NAEP 2009 Reading Results (May 20, 2010)
  
  
• 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)