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Since 1977 Communities In Schools CIS has reached more than one million students and their families annually approximately 3 American schools surrounding them with a community of support and empowering them to stay in school and achieve in lifeIn The Last Dropout CIS founder Bill Milliken offers nine key principles that Communities In Schools has tested over four decades Interwoven are his realworld life stories a journey that began in the turbulent 196s as a youth worker and evolved into a handful of groundbreaking Street Academies that became the CIS movement with a national network of hundreds of local affiliates Milliken also shares transformative stories about how CIS leaders have adopted these principles in their own communities with stunning resultsMillikens guiding philosophy has been It is relationships not programs that change children and it is a principle that has served as a beacon in the movement for educational equity and successThis audio product contains a PDF with supporting material and the PDF is available to download