Jacobson's chapter, «School - Community Partnerships: A Typology for Guiding
Systemic Education
Reform,» draws on the experiences of the Coalition for Community Schools and
other partnership
efforts to help policymakers and researchers understand the value and different types of partnership approaches.
There's also the fact that dismay among progressive Democrats over the Obama Administration's
efforts on
other fronts, along with administration's botched No Child waiver gambit, has given traditionalists the opening they need to win over both Hillary and congressional Republicans increasingly uninterested in any kind of
systemic reform.