Urban Education Commons

The accountability pressures felt today by school administrators make the recruitment of candidates for urban university leadership preparation programs and for urban school district leadership positions even more complex. In order to help address these pressures, a partnership between a large urban school district and an urban university was formed in order to bring more aspiring administrators into the pipeline for the school district. The district found that there was a real need to grow their own school leaders, and they saw the collaboration as a way to raise capacity for the development of school leaders. This paper will describe the program; offer a short, quick review of the literature in this area; and then examine data from the first three years of the program