Private management companies have responded to these pressures by offering comprehensive reform packages that districts can contract to be implemented in schools that either need or want to try major reform. (educationnext.org)
«We are leading the way forward with the nation's most comprehensive reform package. (nystateofpolitics.com)
The bill, one of the few comprehensive reform packages considered by a state legislature this year, includes provisions sought by the Governor that will tie school accreditation to student performance and other «outcomes»; give financial rewards to the best schools and threaten the worst with the prospect of state takeover; extend the school year by five days; and expand a statewide student - testing program, with mandatory summer remediation for low - achieving students. (edweek.org)