Coalition of Essential Schools

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The Coalition of Essential Schools is a US organization created to further a type of whole-school reform originally envisioned by founder Ted Sizer in his book, Horace's Compromise.{{cite book|editor=Thomas C. Hunt|display-editors=et al|title=Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent |year= 2010|publisher=Sage |isbn=978-1-4522-6573-5 |chapter=Coalition of Essential Schools |author= Jill Davidson |pages=170–172 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JSh1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA170 }} The group began in 1984 with twelve schools and grew to 600 members.

In 2014 it merged with the Forum for Education and operated from headquarters in Portland, Maine.{{cite web |url=http://www.forumforeducation.org/node/1010 |date=January 13, 2014 |title=Forum Merges with Coalition of Essential Schools |publisher=Forum for Education and Democracy |location=Ohio }} The organization's executive board voted in December 2016 to cease the organization’s operations.[http://essentialschools.org/farewell/ Farewell letter]