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We promote high quality education as an essential component of urban and metropolitan vitality to create equitable, healthy, and sustainable communities for all.
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Connecting Sectors >>
...to align schools, housing, land use, and metropolitan change

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...for collaborative cross-sector policymaking

Engaging Youth & Schools >>
...in city planning and neighborhood change
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Opportunity-Rich Schools and Sustainable Communities: Seven Steps to Align High-Quality Education with Innovations in City and Metropolitan Planning and Development, our new report for the What Works Collaborative, supports federal agencies—and community development and regional planning practitioners—in identifying the mechanisms to tangibly link their work in sustainable communities planning to educational improvement efforts to create cross-sector “win-wins,” increase productivity, and foster social equity.

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Image of reportGrowth & Opportunity: Aligning High-Quality Public Education & Sustainable Communities Planning in the Bay Area: done in partnership with the Association of Bay Area Governments, this report identifies tangible policy levers at both the regional and municipal levels that realize the co-benefits of pursuing complete communities and high-quality education in tandem. We describe the regional educational landscape and develop recommendations about specific strategies to achieve cross-sector “win-wins.”

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Joint Use of Public Schools: A Framework for a New Social Contract, by the 21st Century School Fund and CC&S, informs the growing conversation about and demand for joint use of schools by providing a conceptual frame for joint use, establishing definitions, and framing basic challenges and opportunities to facilitate better conversations and planning for these types of collaborations.

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Y-PLAN Overview

CC&S’s Y-PLAN toolkit is designed to provide participants and partners in Y-PLAN initiatives with a portfolio of teaching resources to be adapted to local circumstances and contexts.

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Opportunity-Rich Schools and Sustainable Communities:
Seven Steps to Align High-Quality Education with Innovations in City and Metropolitan Planning and Development

Hosted by the Center for Cities & Schools, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Urban Institute:

Overview of Seven Steps
DEBORAH MCKOY and JEFF VINCENT, Center for Cities & Schools

Role of Education in HUD Programs
SALIN GEEVARGHESE, Senior Advisor, Sustainable Housing and Communities Program, HUD

Incorporating Education in Regional Planning
MARISA RAYA, Regional Planner, Association of Bay Area Governments

Getting Districts to the Table
TONY SMITH, Superintendent, Oakland Unified School District

Effective Joint Use Strategies
MIKE RAIBLE, Executive Director, Planning and Development, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and JONATHAN WELLS, Program Manager, Capital Facilities, Charlotte- Mecklenburg Planning Department

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