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How Community-Based Organizations Can Start Charter Schools.
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Martinelli, Frank – 2001
A growing number of charter schools are being designed, launched, and operated by community-based nonprofit organizations (CBOs). This resource guide is intended to target a priority technical assistance need: creating and sustaining a healthy relationship between a new charter school and a founding community organization, leading to the creation…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Community Support
Community Involved Master Planning of Local Education. New Hampshire Plans, Career Education 1978-83. Volume 2 of 4 Volumes.
New Hampshire State Dept. of Education, Concord. – 1978
This guide is designed as an outline of the means to broaden the context of education within a community and to serve its needs through community involvement in educational program planning. Part 1 is a discussion of the need and means for community collaboration, including maximizing use of existing educational facilities and community resources…
Descriptors: Administration, Boards of Education, Career Education, Community Benefits
Identifying and Compiling Information about Community Based Organizations' Efforts to Serve In-School Youth. Volume II. General Guides.
InterAmerica Research Associates, Rosslyn, VA. – 1980
This document consists of sixteen "mini-documents," each of which represents a set of suggestions for education practitioners at the state and local levels, to use in entering into "community partnerships" with a state or local unit of a national organization for the purpose of providing career education to elementary/high school students.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Cooperation, Community Organizations
Schools and Communities Working Together: For Effective Schools and Stronger Communities. Reprint.
Carney, Juanita; Chrispeels, Janet – 1984
Using the school-community council as a vehicle, this manual leads school staffs, parents, community representatives, and school council members step-by-step through suggested tasks to strengthen schools and to help restore confidence in the public school system. Chapter 1, "Schools and Communities Working Together: A Rationale," defines…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Education, Community Involvement
Job Training and the Schools: A Community Guide to Vocational Education.
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Lydecker, Toni H.
This guide for community-based organizations (CBOs) touches on some of the many opportunities for worthwhile collaboration between CBOs and the schools. It suggests several strategies CBOs can use to (1) increase the access of disadvantaged youth and adults to vocational programs and (2) coordinate their own employment and training efforts with…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Involvement
A Guide to Developing Adult Career Decision-Making Programs and Services. New Hampshire Plans, Career Education 1978-83. Volume 4 of 4 Volumes.
New Hampshire State Dept. of Education, Concord. – 1978
Based on eight goals assessed as desired outcomes for a career-educated person, this guide is an outline of how an educational organization or community agency might develop a career decision-making program for adults. Both parts of the guide's purpose--meeting educational needs and meeting community needs--are discussed, including what is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agency Cooperation, Ancillary Services