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A coalition of over 100 education, youth, social services and health organizations have released "The Community Agenda for America's Public Schools," a call for more partnerships among public schools and other community or social service organizations that work to improve the lives of children.

Marty Blank of the Coalition for Community Schools made it clear that the agenda connects strong community supports with high academic achievement. "We are not in the 'either-or' category in this debate [between academic and social supports].... What we do is take the next step and we say how this can be done. We need to get past this conversation that says it's either one way or the other." (As Quoted in Education Week)

You can read more about the Community Agenda here.