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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 24, 2009—<Hinsdale, Massachusetts>—School Leaders Network (SLN) has announced a grant from MetLife Foundation to facilitate professional development for school principals. The funds will help SLN sustain and expand its model of local clusters of principals and provide strategic training and technical support for its network of expert facilitators.

The Houston based advocacy group Children at Risk ranked San Antonio area schools on factors like test scores, class size, etc. and three of the top ten ranked schools in the elementary category are led by SLN Facilitators.

Terry Chidgey's school, Stone Oak Elementary, Karen Bessett's school, Randolph Elementary and Cordell Jones' school, Woodridge Elementary. In addition, Sharon Newman, an SLN member, who is now assisting with the new San Antonio network, has the honor of having her school, Hardy Oaks Elementary, included in the top ten list.

The School Leaders Network has entered into a partnership with New Leaders for New Schools DC, a non-profit organization which trains school leaders to take the helm of challenging urban schools across the nation, to form three networks for principals in the Washington, DC area beginning fall 2009.