The Urban Education Task Force recommends creating new capacity for cross-district and partner collaboration to harness the state’s full potential for innovation. In addition to achieving greater efficiency of resources and a shared sense of accountability for outcomes, this new capacity would further drive progress in the critical areas of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and educator quality.

SAMPLE ACTION STEPS Convene a cross-sector design team to develop parameters for this new entity – its mission and bylaws, a collaborative governance structure, a funding mechanism, and staffing plan.

Recruit new member organizations to the Research Collaborative to meet the technical and substantive needs to support implementation of the Urban Education Consortium.

• Create an Urban Education Consortium, serving as a public-private partnership, that would be endorsed by the Governor, the Board of Regents, the General Assembly, and the Commissioner of Education, but would be supported by private donors and governed by an independent advisory board.
  
  
• Expand the existing Research Collaborative to provide the required analytic and research support to implement the Task Force recommendations.

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• Educator Collaboration Recommendations and Action Steps [PDF: 4 pages]
  Introduction, promising work under way in Rhode Island, recommendations, short- and long-term action steps
  
  
• Educator Collaboration Supplements [PDF: 3 pages]
  Supporting data, information about the recommendation
  
  
• Executive Summary [PDF: 16 pages]
  Introduction, outline of the recommendations
  
  

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