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In fiscal year 2012, Clifton Unified School District’s student AIMS scores were lower than both its peer districts’ and state averages. The District’s instructional program needs improvement. For example, some students were not provided the statutorily required number of instructional hours, and one of its four teachers did not have a teaching certificate. The District’s operational efficiencies were mixed, with some costs higher and some costs lower than peer districts’. However, the District lacked proper oversight and adequate controls over nearly all of its operations. In particular, the District lacked basic administrative processes such as monitoring budgets and maintaining proper controls over expenditures resulting in it overspending its legal budget limits in fiscal years 2009, 2010, and 2011. The District also failed to meet several transportation safety requirements. For example, its primary driver was not certified to drive a school bus. Lastly, the District lacked proper supervision of inmate workers on its school campus.

The African-American community has played a historically significant role in the advancement of Arizona and our region. The future success of our state relies on our ability to strengthen our communities and empower them to meet and exceed their vast potential. This project between the community and the University was undertaken to help advance a better understanding of the changing dynamics of Arizona’s African-American population and the critical issues that require our collective attention in terms of education, health care, the economy, culture, and leadership.

Sustainable housing strives for diverse, healthy, affordable, socially inclusive, resource-efficient, and culturally sensitive housing. This report’s current state assessment is based on five goals of sustainable housing, derived from sustainability and livability principles: meet demand with adequate housing options; provide sufficient quality of housing and promote healthy housing conditions; secure affordability of housing; conserve natural resources in homes; and maintain valuable cultural and historical character.

Executive summary -- Correspondence to scope of work -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Housing challenges in the Eastlake-Garfield District -- 1.2. Profile of the "Reinvent Phoenix" grant -- 1.3. Sustainable housing research -- 1.4. Objectives of the strategy study -- Chapter 2. Research design and data sources -- Chapter 3. Strategy inputs (current state assessment, vision, theory of change) -- 3.1. Current state of housing in the Eastlake-Garfield District -- 3.2. Vision for sustainable housing in the Eastlake-Garfield District -- 3.3. Theory of change -- Chapter 4.Sustainable housing strategy for the Eastlake-Garfield District -- 4.1. Linking sustainable housing goals to interventions and investment options -- 4.2. New construction intervention -- 4.2.1. Core components -- 4.2.2. Details on investment options for new construction -- 4.3. Rehabilitation and revitalization intervention -- 4.3.1. Core components -- 4.3.2. Details on investment options for rehabilitation and revitalization -- 4.4. Adaptive reuse intervention -- 4.5. Details on implementation tools -- 4.6. Synthesis−action plan for sustainable housing in Eastlake-Garfield -- 4.6.1. New construction intervention action plan -- 4.6.2. Rehabilitation and revitalization intervention action plan -- 4.6.3. Adaptive reuse intervention action plan -- Chapter 5 -- Causal problem maps of green systems -- 5.1. Critical role of steering committee, city council, city departments, local experts -- 5.2. Testing strategy, interventions, investments -- 5.3. Coordination across strategies -- 5.4. Anticipating the next set of interventions, investments, and implementation tools -- 5.5. Crafting the next 5-year plan -- References and appendix||The transition strategy presented in this report describes a set of interventions necessary to create sustainable housing in the Eastlake-Garfield District of Phoenix, Arizona. The current state of housing in the District is not sustainable--the population is struggling with high vacancy rates, low affordability, overcrowding, and low incomes burdened by high transportation costs.