Over a three year period from 2007 to 2009, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) provided funding to nine schools designated as "persistently dangerous" under the Unsafe School Choice Option of the No Child Left Behind legislation. The grants aimed to reduce violence and improve academic performance by combining mentoring, educational, employment and other prevention strategies to change the school climate. The grants were awarded for a period of 38 months, including a 14-month planning period. This planning report focuses on the process by which grantees organized their schools and communities to plan and design school-wide reform. The report presents findings on progress made in mobilizing core stakeholders, summarizes planning and implementation accomplishments, and identifies challenges related to learning environments that slowed the paces of both planning and implementation.