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Challenges Facing Black Males Take Center Stage at Town Hall Meeting Council Report on Black Males Heard at Senate Hearing Ch SPECIAL EDITION Fall Conference • New in Las Vegas, p.3 • Leaders Reappointed, p.7 • Conference pictorial, p.8 LEGISLATIVE • Deficit Dialogue,p.10 The Nation’s Voice for Urban Education November/December 2010 Vol. 19, No. 8 www.cgcs.org Council Report On Black Males Heard At Senate Hearing Issuing a wake-up call, the Council of the Great City Schools recently released an eye-opening report indicating that young black males in America are in a state of crisis. “The results are not anything we should be proud of as a nation,” said Council Ex- CBS News journalist Byron Pitts, left, moderates the Council’s town hall meeting on Black Male Achievement featuring, left to ecutive Director Michael Casserly of the right, Schott Foundation President John Jackson, Buffalo Schools Superintendent James Williams, Executive Director of Con- new report in recent testimony before the cerned Black Men George Garrow, Palm Beach Schools Black Male Task Force leader Gloria Crutchfield, Kansas City (Mo.) school U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Children board president Airick West and Tampa student Tevin Sutton. and Families. “On almost every indicator of well-be- Challenges Facing Black Males ing we looked at, our black male young people were coming up on the short end, Take Center Stage at Town Hall Meeting despite the fact that many city school sys- tems were showing progress.” The report, A Call for Change: The Social TAMPA--When Tampa student Tevin Pitts was born and raised in Baltimore and Educational Factors Contributing to the Sutton began his first day of high school, to a single mother and didn’t learn to read he walked to school with about 20 of his until the age of 12. Council Report continued on page 4 friends from the neighborhood. Four years “I am a witness to the power of educa- later, only three or four of the senior’s tion,” said the award-winning journalist. friends are still making that walk with Town Hall continued on page 6 him. “The rest of them have dropped out, are in GED programs, and some are even in Change at the Top jail,” said Sutton, a 12th-grade honors stu- L e a d e r s h i p dent at Middleton High School. at the helm of at The experiences of Sutton and his least nine big-city friends took center stage at a riveting 90- school systems has minute town hall meeting in conjunction undergone change with the Council of the Great City Schools’ or will be chang- 54th Annual Fall Conference here. ing. Cathleen Black The town hall on Black Male Achieve- School districts ment was moderated by Byron Pitts, CBS in New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas, News national chief and 60 Minutes corre- Washington, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, New- spondent, who said the issue not only mat- ark, Louisville and Little Rock are ex- ters to him as a journalist but on a personal periencing transition at the top post. level as well. Change continued on page 3 INSIDE THE COUNCIL NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010 Philadelphia Superintendent Named Nation’s Top Urban Educator TAMPA—Arlene Ackerman was se- lected as the superintendent of The School District of Philadelphia in 2008, and under her leadership the school system launched a five-year strategic plan, Imagine 2014, focusing on providing significant resourc- es to struggling schools. As a result, half of the district’s students for the first time scored at the proficient or advanced level on Pennsylvania’s standardized test. For her efforts, Ackerman was recently presented with the Richard R. Green Award at the Council of the Great City Schools’ 54th Annual Fall Conference here. Sponsored by the Council, ARA- MARK Education and Cambium Learn- ing Group, the award is presented annu- Philadelphia Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman ,center, holds her $10,000 oversize check and is congratu- ally to the nation’s top urban education lated by ARAMARK’s Dennis Maple, Cambium’s Carolyn Getridge, Atlanta Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall leader in memory of Green, who led the and Council Executive Michael Casserly. Minneapolis and New York City public school systems. She said that the progress being As the recipient of the award, Acker- Upon accepting the award, Ackerman made in Philadelphia has demonstrated man receives a $10,000 college scholarship, noted that she is two generations away that it doesn’t take a long time to make which she can present to a 2011 graduate of from grandparents who were sharecrop- change happen if everyone is on the her choice in the Philadelphia school system pers and never attended school past the same page. or from her high school alma mater. eighth grade. “I am a product of the pub- “If we focus on children, we can get lic school system, and I believe in public this work done for them,” said Acker- schools,” she proclaimed. man. Executive Director Editor Associate Editor Michael Casserly Henry Duvall Tonya Harris [email protected] [email protected] Council officers A newsletter published by the Council of the Great City Schools, representing 65 of the nation’s largest urban public school districts. Chair Dilafruz Williams Albuquerque Chicago Fort Worth Louisville Oklahoma City St. Louis Board Member, Portland, Ore. Anchorage Cincinnati Fresno Memphis Omaha St. Paul Chair-elect Atlanta Clark Co. Greensboro Miami-Dade Orange Co. San Diego Beverly Hall Austin Cleveland Houston Milwaukee Palm Beach San Francisco Superintendent, Atlanta Baltimore Columbus Indianapolis Minneapolis Philadelphia Seattle Birmingham Dallas Jackson Nashville Pittsburgh Shreveport Secretary-Treasurer Boston Dayton Jacksonville Newark Portland Tampa Candy Olson Broward Co. Denver Kansas City New Orleans Providence Toledo Board Member, Hillsborough Buffalo Des Moines Little Rock New York City Richmond Washington DC County (Tampa) Charleston Detroit Long Beach Norfolk Rochester Wichita Charlotte East Baton Rouge Los Angeles Oakland Sacramento All news items should be submitted to: Urban Educator Council of the Great City Schools 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Suite 702 • Washington, DC 20004 (202) 393-2427 • (202) 393-2400 (fax) 2 | URBAN EDUCATOR URBAN EDUCATOR | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010 INSIDE THE COUNCIL Change continued from page 1 led D.C. schools for more than three years In the nation’s largest public school after the mayor took control. Urban Superintendents system, New York City will have a new chancellor in Cathleen Black, a publishing Award-Winning Leader Staying at Helm Longer executive, appointed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. But for her to be In Atlanta, longtime Superintendent The average tenure of current su- seated as chancellor, the state had to issue a Beverly Hall announced Nov. 20 that she perintendents leading the nation’s larg- waiver since she is not an educator. would step down from the helm in June. est urban public school districts has Black, chairwoman of Hearst Maga- She was the nation’s superintendent of the increased to nearly four years, or 3.64 zines, will succeed Joel Klein, who resigned year in 2009 and is a recipient of the coun- years, in 2010 from little more than two in early November to take a post at News try’s top prize in urban school leadership, years, or 2.33 years, in 1999, according Corporation. Klein was appointed in 2002 the Council of the Great City Schools’ to a new survey by the Council of the by Mayor Bloomberg after the mayor took Richard Green Award. Great City Schools. control of the school system. “I will be taking on new educational The increase shows a 56 percent jump In Chicago, Terry Mazany, president challenges when my contract expires in in superintendent tenure since 1999 that and chief executive officer of the Chicago June 2011,” she said in a statement. She has gradually risen every year, the report Community Trust, has been named inter- took the reins of Atlanta Public Schools in -- Urban School Superintendents: Charac- im CEO of the nation’s third largest school 1999, and has been nationally recognized teristics, Tenure and Salary -- points out. system. He replaces Ron Huberman, who for her leadership in advancing student “Urban school superintendents are resigned in late November after less than achievement. staying in their districts for longer pe- two years at the helm. His announcement In an announcement that reportedly riods of time, which is reflected in the came in advance of Chicago Mayor Rich- came as a surprise, Pittsburgh Public average tenure of immediate past super- ard Daley’s planned departure in May. The Schools Superintendent Mark Roosevelt intendents of 5.1 years in 2010,” stressed Chicago school system is also under may- in early October told the school board Council Executive Director Michael oral control. that he would resign in December after Casserly. “Superintendent stability con- The country’s five years at the helm. He noted plans to tributes to academic success in an urban fifth largest pub- become president of Antioch College in school system.” lic school system, Ohio. The new report is the Council’s sev- Clark County On Dec. 13, the Pittsburgh school enth survey in a series of Urban Indicator School District board appointed Deputy Superintendent publications. Highlights of the 11-page in Las Vegas, will Linda Lane as the first African-American report include the demographics of ur- have a new super- woman to be named permanent superin- ban school superintendents, showing intendent taking tendent. approximately 47 percent white, 41 per- the reins soon. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in early cent black and 11 percent Hispanic, as Dwight Jones In mid-October, September decided not to renew New- well as 74 percent men and 27 percent the school board ark Superintendent Clifford Janey’s three- women in 2010.
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