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CIS Executive Vice President Gary Chapman talks to U.S. News and World Report about the role of after-school programs in decreasing dropout rates.

Ibanka mạch máuDan Cardinali, president of Communities In Schools, the largest dropout prevention program in the country, comments in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about why education could be the perfect antidote to voter cynicism.

Communities In Schools (CIS), the nation’s leading dropout prevention organization dedicated to helping kids stay in school and achieve in life, today released a preliminary report on its expansion for the 2014-2015 school year.

Eight affiliates of Communities in Schools (CIS) have been named among 30 organizations nationwide that will share in nearly $12.5 million from the AT&T Aspire RFP.

Ibanka mạch máuNational “American Graduate Day” Broadcast airs September 27 on PBS

For the national economy, education is the tide that lifts all boats. If American workers had just one additional year of education, S&P estimates the U.S. Gross Domestic Product would increase by $525 billion over five years.

Ibanka mạch máuA New York celebration honored Elaine Wynn who has served on the board of Communities In Schools, a school dropout prevention nonprofit, for 15 years.

For millions of poor kids in the U.S. today, the reality of summer is very different from that middle-class ideal. Unmoored from the structure of a school day and physically removed from all the supports that school can provide, too many young people spend the summer months feeling hopeless, lonely and adrift.

Ibanka mạch máuChildren living in poverty are by far the most likely to be chronically absent from school. The key to keeping these kids in school is to put dedicated social-service specialists in every low-performing, high-poverty school.

With backing at local, state and federal levels, the "community schools model", a decades-old idea for improving schools and neighborhoods, is gaining ground. The largest coordinator of such programs, Communities in Schools, saw a 6% increase in its reach in the 2012-13 school year, covering schools with a total of more than 1.3 million students in 26 states.

Ibanka mạch máuJuly 22, 2014. Nation’s leading dropout prevention organization to host school supply drives across the country to “level the playing field”

Communities In Schools President Dan Cardinali's blog post for the Huffington Post.

Communities In Schools President Dan Cardinali's blog post for the Huffington Post.

May 30, 2014. CIS offers solutions to keep kids in school and help them achieve in life.

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May 19, 2014. Graduates join movement to change the picture of education in America.

May 15, 2014. Discuss CIS Contributions to My Brother’s Keeper Initiative.

May 14, 2014. On the eve of 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the nation’s largest dropout prevention organization released a national report along with 24 local and state reports, demonstrating the unexpected reasons why kids drop out of school.

Ibanka mạch máuAt last month's White House summit, participants spent the better part of a day attempting to map a strategy for delivering integrated supports to millions of additional students.

Ibanka mạch máuApril 7, 2014. Communities In Schools (CIS) announced a partnership with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Leadership Foundations at the Omni Hotel in Dallas to empower at-risk youth to stay in school and achieve in life.