Astronaut Jose Hernandez addressed the Council of the Great City Schools' 59th Annual Conference in Long Beach, CA on October 9, 2015. Here is a 5-minute excerpt of his speech.
Melissa Collins, a teacher in Shelby County Schools in Memphis, TN, was awarded the Queen Smith Award for Urban Education at the Council of the Great City Schools' 59th Annual Conference in Long Beach, CA. The $2,000 award is named in honor of the late vice president of urban programs for Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Publishing Company.
Journalist Maria Hinojosa moderated the Town Hall Meeting held on Oct. 9, 2015 in Long Beach, CA at the Council of the Great City Schools' 59th Annual Conference. The Town Hall panelists were students from New York City Public Schools, the San Francisco Unified School District and the Long Beach Unified School District.
