Policy makers in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont unanimously passed joint resolutions of support for the New England Secondary School Consortium, a pioneering multistate partnership working to foster forward-thinking innovations in the design and delivery of secondary education across the region. The passage of formal joint resolutions in four different states during the same legislative session sends a powerful message of endorsement for the Consortium’s overarching goal: ensuring that every public high school student graduates prepared for success in the colleges, careers, and communities of the 21st century.

The New England Secondary School Consortium recently released its High Leverage Policy Framework, a detailed exploration of education policy from rationale to development to implementation. Drawing from the fields of education policy, school redesign, organizational change, leadership development, and program evaluation, the tool provides policy makers and educators with a step-by-step framework they can use to identify and develop effective, high-impact policies in their states, districts, and schools. Created by a team of researchers at the University of Connecticut's Center for Education Policy Analysis, the Framework will help guide policy makers and educational leaders as they work to enact transformative change in New England's public schools.