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t students whowin a spot in one of the charter schools score higher onstandardized teststhan those who don’t. In a neighborhood where higher education was oncejustsomething that other people did, you’ve got hundreds of kids who’ve now gone tocollege. And Harlem is not the onlymunity that’s found success taking on these challengestogether. In Cincinnati, a focus on education hashelped to make sure more kids are ready forkindergarten. In Nashville, they’ve redesigned high schoolsand boosted graduation rates byalmost 20 percent over the past 12 years. In Milwaukee, they’ve cut teen pregnancy inhalf. Every munity is different,with different needs and different approaches. Butmunities that are making the most progress on these issues havesome things in don’t lookfor a single silver bullet。 instead they bring together local governmentandnonprofits and businesses and teachers and parents around a shared goal. That’s whatGeoffrey did when he started theHarlem Children’s Zone. Government wasinvolved so don’tbe confused here, it has an important role to play. And already there are governmentresourcesgoing into these munities. But it’simportant that our faith institutions and ourbusinesses and the parents andthe munities themselves are involved in designing andthinking through howdo we move forward. And the second thing is they’reholding themselves accountable by delivering measurableresults. We don’t fund things, we don’t start projectsjust for the sake of starting ’vegot to work. If they don’t work weshould try something else. And sometimesthose of uswho care deeply about advancing opportunity aren’t willing tosubject some of theseprograms to that test: Do they work? In my State of the Union addresslast year, I announced our mitment to identifymore munities like these urban, rural, tribal where dedicated citizens aredetermined to make adifference and turn things around. Andwe challenged them. We said ifyou candemonstrate the ability and the will to launch an allenpassing,allhandsondeckapproach to reducing poverty and expanding opportunity, we’llhelp you get the resourcesto do it. We’lltake resources from some of the programs that we’re already doingandconcentrate them. We’ll make sure thatour agencies are working together more ’ll put in talent to help you plan. But we’re also going to hold you accountableand measureyour progress.