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High School Renewal Timeline

 1982

Boston Compact

 1993

School to Career Partnership Grant

List of pilot schools

1994

Pilot Schools

 1996

Focus on Children - standards based reform

 1996

Essentials of Whole School Change

 1997

High School Restructuring Task Force

New schools in 2001

2001

Excel, Monument and Odyssey High Schools open.

 2001

Carnegie Corporation of New York Planning Grant.

New schools in 2002

2002

TechBoston Academy and Boston Community Leadership Academy open

 2002

Schools for a New Society (Carnegie and Gates) Implementation Grant

  2002

Office of High School Renewal created

New schools in 2003

2003

More new schools: Academy of Public Service, Economics and Business Academy, Boston International and Another Course to College.

  2003

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant for new small school development

  2003

Special Education Equitable Distribution (SEED) Workgroup

New schools in 2004

2004

Boston Evening Academy becomes Boston Day and Evening Academy.

  2004

Design phase for seven additional new small schools: three at Hyde Park High School and four at West Roxbury High School.

 2004

Burke and Charlestown High Schools introduce new Small Learning Communities.

New schools in 2005

2005

Seven new small schools open in West Roxbury and Hyde Park.

 2005

Brighton, East Boston and English High Schools introduce new Small Learning Communities.

  2005

Community Transition School

  2005

High School Renewal Visitor Program

  2005

Gates II

  2005

Special Education Equitable Distribution (SEED) Workgroup Final Report

  2006

Office of College & Career Connections (OC3) Established

  2007

Parthenon Study