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New Leaders For New Schools

Mission
To ensure high academic achievement for every student by attracting and preparing outstanding leaders and supporting the performance of the urban public schools they lead.

Model
New Leaders for New Schools recruits and trains outstanding individuals to become urban principals. New Leaders participants complete an intensive year-long training program and paid residency in an urban public school, and then assume principalship positions in new or existing schools where they and their schools receive ongoing coaching and knowledge-sharing opportunities.

Growth
  • Grew annual revenue by 40 percent from $15 million in FY2006 to $21 million in FY2007, and increased lives touched (students in New Leaders-led schools) by 42 percent from 115,500 to 164,000.
  • Successfully launched a New Orleans site, working closely with Teach For America, KIPP, the New Orleans school district, and the Louisiana Department of Education.
  • Completed a two-year senior management recruitment effort that resulted in the hiring of a president and executive team to drive growth and impact.

Impact
  • In FY2007, New Leaders engaged the RAND Corporation to conduct a rigorous, multi-year evaluation. Data indicated that students in schools led by New Leaders principals for at least three years demonstrated statistically significant gains in math and English.
  • New Leaders is capturing practices from some of the fastest improving schools nationwide to drive improvement in its own schools and provide guidance to other practitioners and policymakers.

Looking Ahead
By 2014, New Leaders plans to train 25 percent of the country's new urban principals with the goal that at least 90 percent of students in 80 percent of schools will achieve proficiency or above in core subjects.

Total Funding from New Profit to Date: $1,165,000
Value of Total Consulting Resources from New Profit (Monitor or Other) to Date:$2,300,000

LIVES TOUCHED* REVENUE ($MM)
2002 2007 CAGR 2000 2007 CAGR
7,500 164,000 85% 1.7 21.0 43%

* The New Leaders program was launched in 2001 after an initial program development period

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