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School Imagineers’ founding partners have
10 years of experience working together and building
a successful and effective superintendent and board
of education team. This team implemented the first
K-8 mandatory uniform policy. It received GM’s
national award for district and union collaboration.
It required mandatory summer school for all second
and third graders who were not reading at grade
level. It sustained continual gains in student achievement
with all identified sub-groups year after year.
It worked together to create a school district that
functioned within legal limits while maintaining
local authority. The team
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Carl
Cohn welcomes Colin Powell to his namesake Powell
K-8 School in Long Beach. The new school was built
in record time and won a national architectural
award. |
commitment to students, staff and parents no matter what
outside forces challenged them. They can show you how
to do it, too. |
| LBUSD’s
reforms brought record attendance, the lowest rate
of student suspensions in a decade, fewer students
failing classes, fewer high school dropouts, more
students taking college preparatory courses, and
significantly safer schools. Long Beach is the most
diverse large city in |
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nation, according to the U.S. Census. Dr. Cohn has discussed
his district’s successes on ABC’s “Good
Morning America,” NBC’s “Today Show,”
CBS’s “This Morning” and CNN’s
“Headline News,” and he participated in the
White House Conference on Youth Drug Use and Violence.
In 1996, President Clinton appointed him to the National
Advisory Council on Violence against Women. He received
the 2001 Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education for his
leadership in boosting student achievement. |
Long Beach Unified Team Effort |
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became the first school district in the nation
to require school uniforms in grades K-8;
the first to require any third grader reading
below grade level to attend mandatory summer
school; and the first to require underperforming
eighth graders to attend a prep school for
a year before starting high school. |
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The district
led the nation’s first conversion of a middle school
to single gender classes and established an extended middle
school day and year as well as many other innovations. |
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