With a generous grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and with 50 Schools in the Small Schools Network, the Coalition of Essential Schools has launched a five-year initiative to create the following:
A network of 23 CES Mentor High Schools, actively engaged in helping to support the creation of new small schools,
Two large high schools converted into eight new CES small schools,
CES ChangeLab, an online resource that provides behind-the-scenes access to the best practices of the CES Mentor Schools,
A "Mentor Schools Guide," documenting the school-to-school mentoring approach,
A strengthened network of CES Centers with the capacity to assist in the creation and re-configuration of new small high schools.
Mentor Schools
The following school became a Mentor School in 2008:
South Valley Academy (Albuquerque, NM)
New and Conversion Schools
In the Fall of 2008, the following new schools opened:
Capital City Public Charter School (Washington, D.C),
Global Neighborhood Secondary School (Floral, Park NY),
Native American Community Academy (Albuquerque, NM),
In the Fall of 2008, the following schools were invited to join the Small Schools Network:
Alma D' Arte Charter School (Los Cruces, NM),
Big Picture High School (Bloomfield, CT),
East Bay Met (Newport, RI),
Greer Middle College (Greenville, SC),
High School for Recording Arts Los Angeles (Hawthorne, CA),
MetEast High School (Camden, NJ)
Multicultural Indigenous Academy (St. Paul, MN),
North Central Charter Essential School (Fitchburg, MA)
The Crater Renaissance Academy (Central Point, OR)
Twin Buttes High School (Zuni, NM)
In the Fall of 2009, the following new schools will open:
Bayview Essential School of Music, Art and Social Justice (San Francisco, CA)
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