Official Publication of the National League of Cities OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES
NATION’S CITIES WEEKLY
Volume 35, Number 17 | April 30, 2012
IN THIS ISSUE
www.nlc.org
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NLC Files Amicus Brief, Stresses
Immigration as a Federal Responsibility
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White House Honors Champions of
Change for Greening Cities and Towns
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Nation’s Cities Weekly Readership
Survey
NLC to Update Publications, Web News Delivery
Last Print Edition of Nation’s Cities Weekly to be May 21
by Amy Elsbree
NLC announced today it will
be making changes to its print
and electronic publications as
part of its efforts to ensure time-
ly delivery of news and informa-
tion while providing the greatest
flexibility for members to cus-
tomize how they receive com-
munications from NLC.
“Our goal is to offer our members a variety of ways they can gather
news and information from NLC.”
—NLC Executive Director Donald J. Borut
Because of the lengthy pro-
duction process involved with
printing and shipping the hard
copy of the paper, this weekly
cycle can no longer keep up
with 24/7 cycle that now domi-
nates news delivery.
Instead, NLC anticipates
shifting to a printed publication
offered monthly or bimonth-
ly that provides commentary
and analysis, resources for cit-
ies and organizational news.
This will be complemented by
round-the-clock news and com-
mentary from NLC via a suite
of Web-based tools, including
NLC’s website, Twitter, NLC’s
blog — CitiesSpeak.org — and
Facebook.
In addition, NLC will con-
tinue to provide a weekly e-mail
for members pointing to the
highlights of that week’s NLC
news and activities and to offer
e-newsletters tailored to specific
member interests.
Details: To provide input to
NLC, members are encouraged
to complete the short survey on
page 7 and available at http://bit.
ly/NCWSurvey. For questions
or if you have trouble accessing
Nation’s Cities Weekly online,
please contact NLC Member
Services at (877) 827-2385 or
memberservices@nlc.org.
NLC Publishes Case Studies of Educational
Alignment for Young Children in Five Cities
by Tim Mudd
Newspaper Handling
A new set of case studies pub-
lished by NLC’s Institute for Youth,
Education and Families (YEF
Institute) highlights an emerging city
strategy for ensuring that more young
children are poised for educational
success: the alignment of early care
and education programs with K-12
education systems.
“Educational Alignment for
Young Children: Profiles of Local
Innovation” identifies five cities that
are on the leading edge of efforts to
create a seamless educational pipeline
for children ages 0-8. Innovative align-
ment strategies in Boston; Hartford;
INSTITUTE
FOR YOUTH,
EDUCATION & FAMILIES
Educational alignmEnt
for Young childrEn
ProfilEs of local innovation
Conn.; San Antonio; San José, Calif.;
and Seattle aim to ensure that more
children are succeeding in school and
reading at grade level by the end of
third grade.
These cities are working to restruc-
ture the historically disjointed rela-
tionship between early education
providers and elementary schools by
bringing together teachers and other
key stakeholders from each system,
better aligning preschool and school-
based learning and improving transi-
tions as children move from one level
to the next. Mayors and other munici-
pal officials are increasingly serving as
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