CES Small Schools Project

With a generous grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Coalition of Essential Schools is launching a five-year initiative to create the following:

• A network of 20 CES Mentor High Schools, actively engaged in spawning new schools through on-site programs
• Ten new CES high schools, with emphasis on CES principles for teaching and learning
• Five improved CES schools, with potential to become new mentor sites
• CES ChangeLab, an online resource that provides behind-the-scenes access to the best practices of the CES Mentor Schools
• A "Mentor Schools Guide," paving the way for other schools to become mentor schools
• A strengthened network of CES regional centers with the capacity to assist in the creation and re-configuration of new small high schools

For more information about the CES Small Schools Project, please visit the CES National Web site.