AUSL will improve student achievement in Chicago’s high-poverty, chronically failing schools through its disciplined transformation process, built on a foundation of specially trained AUSL teachers.

AUSL is at the forefront of education reform in Chicago. Founded in 2001 by Martin J. Koldyke, venture capitalist and founder of the Golden Apple Foundation, AUSL has created a unique model of reform that has been heralded by President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. AUSL’s model is to train teachers in a rigorous one year residency program and then place them in AUSL-managed turnaround schools to effect whole school transformation. The results are impressive.