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Community Partnerships: Ways Community Groups and Schools Can Effectively Partner

How community groups and schools can establish and maintain partnerships that benefit local schools.

How community groups and schools can establish and maintain partnerships that benefit local schools.

Community members and school leaders interested in creating partnerships or learning more about the school/community partnerships should find these Web sites helpful:

Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania (www.upenn.edu/ccp)

Communities in Schools (www.cisnet.org)

Institute for Educational Leadership (www.iel.org)

National Network of Partnership Schools (www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000)

For additional resources, check out the Big List.

This article originally published on 2/22/2001