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

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

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

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.

Schools have a responsibility to ensure that the homework is achievable.