Mayors' Education Advisors Focus on High School Reform, Support for Learning

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High school reform, out-of-school time programs and efforts to expand college access are just some of the strategies that mayors and their senior education advisors are implementing to improve local schools and increase graduation rates in their cities. These and other topics were the focus of a recent semi-annual meeting in San Diego of the Mayor's Education Policy Advisors Network (EPAN).

Sponsored by NLC's Institute for Youth, Education, and Families (YEF Institute) and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, EPAN is a national network of mayoral education aides from the nation's 75 largest cities working on school improvement.

During the meeting, 20 EPAN members had the opportunity to visit a dynamic, new-design …