IEL’s Coalition for Community Schools (CCS) highlighted evidence and inspiring stories of opportunity and support at its bi-annual Community Schools Awards for Excellence Symposium on June 5, 2017 at the National Press Club. This year’s community school initiative winners are Community Achieves (Nashville, Tenn.), and NYC Community Schools Initiative (New York). For the first time CCS also awarded a neighborhood community school initiative award to Enlace Chicago (Chicago). The community school awardees are Oakland International High School (Oakland, Calif.), Pearl-Cohn Entertainment Magnet High School (Nashville, Tenn.), and P.S./M.S. 188 The Island School (New York). WATCH THE VIDEOS…
