Children & Families

Award Winners: Two state departments of education, five school districts or subdistricts, and six schools have been recognized for forming exemplary partnerships involving schools, families, and communities.

The 1999-2000 "partnership awards" are being presented for the first time by the National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

"These sites are demonstrating that programs of partnership can be sustained as a regular part of school life," said Joyce L. Epstein, who directs the network, which now has more than 1,300 members, as well as the Center on School, Family, and Community...