Tennessee Education Commissioner Candice McQueen said yesterday that despite a desire to move a struggling Memphis middle school into a proven
local turnaround model managed by the district, she is insisting the school be moved into the failing Achievement School District (ASD).
Not exact matches
Instead of choosing among four contentious
turnaround models (
turnaround, restart, school closure, and transformation), schools have two new additional options: One option allows state agencies to establish any whole school improvement strategy for use by
local education agencies with approval from the U.S. Secretary of Education, and the other option permits schools to partner with outside organizations who have successful records in school
turnarounds.
In Bridgeport he used a «
turnaround model» that brought in a charter school operator to run a public school but left the
local teacher contract in place.
While
local SFC leaders are claiming that they «just want to have an open conversation» about ways to improve schools, they seem pretty fixated on the
turnaround model.
The only thing standing in their way was a state law requiring that parents, teachers and the
local community had to play a role in selecting a «
turnaround»
model and there was little interest in a Washington D.C. charter school company that had virtually no experience running schools with a large Latino population, a significant number of English Language Learners and a large special education population.
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.
In the case of the chapter on
turnaround models, Ravitch describes two studies on the same
local policy and with differing conclusions, and that is fair.
In an interview with the Public School Forum, Hall explained that the Innovative School District is essentially an effort to build a brand new
local school district aimed at turning around low - performing schools — and, he said, lawmakers understood that there's a start - up cost to that kind of work when they developed an initial budget for the
turnaround model.