This teaching / learning method promotes personal and social growth, career development, and civic responsibility and can be a powerful vehicle for effective school reform at all grade levels. (DropOutPrevention.org)
Other effective school reform projects place in the middle of the range of scores for these features. (artsedsearch.org)
Chicago's LSCs have proven to be a positive element of effective school reform for nearly two decades (for details, please see the fact sheet, «Research Shows that Local School Councils Help Improve Schools!». (parentsacrossamerica.org)