Sentences with phrase «become turnaround models»

Eight years after they found themselves lumped in with some of the lowest - performing schools in the state, Mobile County schools such as Mae Eanes Middle School and Grant Elementary are now regularly making Adequate Yearly Progress on state exams and have become turnaround models for educators around the country.

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Mastery operates 15 charter or converted districts schools in Philadelphia, and has become best known for its «turnaround» model for some of the city's most troubled schools.

Rewarded with a six - year renewal from the Louisiana Department of Education in 2015, Tubman plans to keep raising academic achievement and become a model of successful school turnaround for schools around the country.

These models include: transformation, which entails replacing the school principal and undertaking three other specific reforms; turnaround, which involves replacing the principal and many of the school staff; restart, which means becoming a charter or privately managed school; and school closure.

In a district filled with low - income and at - risk students, the turnaround was hailed as a model for the rest of the country, and the superintendent, Rod Paige, went on to become U.S. secretary of education under George W. Bush.