Released on: March 13, 2008, 12:58 am

Press Release Author: Brenda Mabbitt

Industry: Entertainment

Press Release Summary: The producers of Today's Family are pleased to announce that
New Leaders for New Schools will be featured in an upcoming episode as part of the
show's \"Models of Excellence\" series on \"Touching Hearts Changing Lives\"

Press Release Body:
Deerfield Beach, FL, March 13, 2008 -- The producers of Today's Family are pleased
to announce that New Leaders for New Schools will be featured in an upcoming episode
as part of the show's \"Models of Excellence\" series on \"Touching Hearts Changing
Lives\".

Hearts are being touched and lives are being changed, as New Leaders for New Schools
works to ensure high academic achievement for children across America's urban public
schools.

Conceived in 2000, New Leaders for New Schools\' mission is to ensure high academic
achievement for every student by attracting and preparing outstanding leaders and
supporting the performance of the urban public schools they lead at scale. Since
its inception, it has selected and trained more than 430 passionate and
results-focused individuals, from within education, as well as former educators, to
become urban public school principals committed to achieving success for every child
in their schools.

A primary goal of the organization is that schools led by New Leaders principals for
at least five years have 90-100 percent of students achieve proficiency in core
academic subjects and be on track to graduate from high school ready for college,
careers, and citizenship. Currently, New Leaders for New Schools is on track to
provide 25 percent of the new urban principals needed across the U.S. by 2014.
They recently released a report, "Defining an Urban Principalship to Drive Dramatic
Achievement Gains", which draws findings from an analysis of dozens of schools
selected to compare low-income schools making dramatic achievement gains with those
making incremental gains; the schools highlighted include five low-income public
schools led by New Leaders principals that were the single most improved or highest
achieving schools in their cities -- including the most-improved public schools in
the entire states of Illinois and California.

"It is clear that great schools are led by great principals," says Co-founder and
Chief Executive Officer, Jonathan Schnur. "Our program is designed to effectively
prepare and support individuals who have an unyielding belief in the potential of
all children to achieve academically, a record of success in leading adults, and
demonstrated instructional knowledge with a minimum of two years of teaching
experience in a K-12 setting."

New Leaders receives support from the nation\'s leading education philanthropists
including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation,
The Broad Foundation, The New Schools Venture Fund, New Profit, Inc., The Walton
Family Foundation, The Boeing Company, and FedEx. New Leaders for New Schools also
receives support from the U.S. Department of Education.

The organization has partnerships in Baltimore, California's Bay Area, Chicago,
Memphis, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Prince
George's County.

For more information, visit the New Leaders for New School\'s web site at www.nlns.org.
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Contact:
Brenda Mabbitt
Public Relations
Today's Family
Deerfield Beach, FL
(800) 597-1186
bmabbitt@eoatv.com
http://www.nlns.org




Web Site: http://www.nlns.org

Contact Details: Brenda Mabbitt
Public Relations
Today's Family
Deerfield Beach, FL
(800) 597-1186
bmabbitt@eoatv.com
http://www.nlns.org