The existing teachers will be assigned to these smaller learning communities and ISA will provide the framework of how the learning communities work. [We're also] making sure that the students in the large school are also being well served.

In smaller learning communities, students do better academically and socially. Students make better grades and graduation rates are a lot higher.

Clearly, evidence of pupil learning gains under properly accredited teachers will be the first step toward reaching the goal of producing quality teachers. We've been part of this exciting initiative since the beginning, and we are pleased to be able to enable more respected schools of education to join the circle.

We have been working with the Union City Board of for about a year. I had delivered a keynote address at a National School Board Association conference, which Superintendent Stanley Sanger attended and followed up with me afterwards.

In our surveys, 85 to 90 percent of these kids say they want to go to college.

The schools are the ones taking on the responsibility of restructuring, and we help set up the principles and model [for them to follow].