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tickercontent[0]='Department of Education highlights AUSL’s Johnson and Harvard schools in videos about successful turnarounds. Click here to see the videos.)
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tickercontent[1]='Executive Director Don Feinstein talks to WBEZ’s Linda Lutton about AUSL’s turnaround model. Click here to hear the entire interview. Click here to hear the entire interview.)
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tickercontent[2]='Sun Times columnist Mary Mitchell visited AUSL’s Howe School of Excellence and was very impressed with the turnaround. Read her column.. (click here)
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tickercontent[3]='AUSL’s Andre Cowling joined Arne Duncan at the University of Delaware to talk about the turnaround at the Harvard School of Excellence and implications for Delaware and the country. (click here to read more)
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tickercontent[4]='Mayor Daley says Orr is “on the right track” when he visited October 29, 2009 for "Principal for a Day." (click here to read more)
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tickercontent[5]='On October 22, Arne Duncan highlighted AUSL’s work at a major speech about teacher preparation at Columbia Teacher’s College in New York: "In Chicago I was lucky to work with the Academy for Urban School Leadership program, one of the nation’s top residency programs." (click here to read more)
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tickercontent[6]='The Department of Education recently announced 28 Teacher Quality Partnership grants out of 172 applications. AUSL and university partner National-Louis University were awarded the third largest grant of $16.6 million over five years. This grant will enable AUSL and NLU to expand the residency and support more CPS turnaround schools.
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tickercontent[6]='NewSchools Venture Fund named AUSL Executive Director, Dr. Don Feinstein as the education entrepreneur of the year at their annual summit. Click here to read more about this award.
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tickercontent[7]='The New York Times highlighted Arne Duncan’s plans to turnaround 1000 schools per year using AUSL’s model. Read the entire story here.
US News and World Report also highlighted Arne Duncan’s reform plans in a story about the Howe School of Excellence. You can read the entire story here.
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tickercontent[8]='The PBS Show Now recently did a story about Arne Duncan and how his Chicago legacy would translate into national reform. The show highlights the Dodge Renaissance Academy and Harvard School of Excellence, two AUSL schools also honored by visits from President Obama and Secretary Duncan. The AUSL portion starts at 10:40. You can view the entire 26 minute show here.
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