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Article: Mayors' education advisors discuss impact of federal policy, share city-school partnership efforts: NLC's Mayors' Education Policy Advisors Network (EPAN), sponsored by the Institute for Youth, Education, and Families (YEF Institute), seeks to strengthen the capacity of mayors and other municipal leaders to be strong advocates for education and high school reform.(National League of Cities )
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- Nation's Cities Weekly
- Article date:
- June 18, 2007
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Senior policy advisors to mayors in 25 cities gathered in Washington, D.C., last week to discuss the impact of federal education policy on local efforts to improve schools as well as strategies for creating effective city-school partnerships.
NLC's Mayors' Education Policy Advisors Network (EPAN), sponsored by the Institute for Youth, Education, and Families (YEF Institute), seeks to strengthen the capacity of mayors and other municipal leaders to be strong advocates for education and high school reform. Senior municipal staff from the nation's 75 largest cities comprise the network, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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