Not exact matches
Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project -
based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide
turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning
models to launch a competency -
based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.
The administration's
models for school
turnarounds have been criticized because they often require the replacement of the principal and other school staff members, and questions have been raised about whether the approach is
based in research.
The Achievement School District: Lessons from Tennessee reports on the ASD
model, including the viability of charter schools within a community -
based enrollment system, developing a sustainable teacher and leader pipeline, and collaboration with the Shelby County district - run
turnaround effort, called iZone.
readers learned of an apparent deal by Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor and his senior staff to turn over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to a major Washington D.C.
based charter school management company despite the fact that the Clark
Turnaround Committee, which is made up of local parents, teachers, administrators and Hartford residents, hadn't even begun to identify which of five possible
turnaround models they were interested in pursuing.
Some of our
turnaround and transformation schools are rural
based, so that limits them in the
models that they pick and the resources that they have to really concentrate on those schools.
It's a
model that's
based in large part on a
turnaround model he helped oversee before he got to Lansing, back when he was superintendent of Dearborn Public Schools.
The New Schools team's vision is to lead the transformation of public education in Tennessee, and serve as a national
model for needs -
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