Sentences with phrase «school turnaround operator»

Bennett didn't address his plans for the six Indianapolis public schools facing state intervention while in Gary, although introducing a school turnaround operator in Indianapolis is widely seen as the option the Indiana Department of Education is most likely to pursue.

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• Fifth, since each student has access to just one school, and the area has access to just one operator, the only response to a persistently failing school or district is a «turnaround.»

Remarkably, rather than trusting successful school operators» track records and informed opinion that start - ups are the way to go, Secretary Duncan urged them to get into the turnaround business during a speech at the 2009 National Charter Schools Conference.

Even if most individual turnaround attempts fail, you can achieve a cumulative success rate of 70 or 80 % by retrying rapidly: bringing a new, more capable leader; closing the school and starting fresh with a new operator; or closing the school altogether and dispersing the students to other, better schools.

The school's turnaround operator, Charter Schools USA, is vowing to restart the program.

I'm not going to criticize the turnaround school operators for what they said.

If it were a traditional public school, state law currently says the school would have to earn F's for six years straight before the school could be taken over by a state - appointed turnaround operator or shut down altogether.

Those frustrations were visible at a recent State Board of Education meeting, as turnaround operators offered blunt assessments of the current state of affairs in IPS schools, while district officials unsuccessfully argued state officials» funding formula for the takeovers is inequitable.

The state would develop a turnaround plan for these schools and then either give them back to the district to run as prescribed or hire an outside contractor, such as a charter school operator.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

And for charter school operators and other school turnaround players, it means putting parents at the head of education decisionmaking and governance.

Enrollment at state takeover schools is even lower than turnaround operators anticipated, writes the Indianapolis Star «s Scott Elliott:

The three companies started last school year flush with cash, but flagging enrollment has already lowered the amount of money EdPower and other turnaround operators have to run the state takeover schools.

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.

Because initial funding estimates were based on enrollment at the schools before state takeover, the turnaround operators started last year with one of the highest per - pupil funding amounts in the state.

Third, the very few and limited national turnaround charter operators or networks with a track record of success are not interested in «turnaround» work as defined in HB 5105 because their model relies on years of slowly establishing schools one grade level at a time.

The ISD welcomes operators that can bring authentic and strategic innovation to our school turnaround efforts.

So what's the difference between schools with «turnaround school operators» (Manual, Howe, Arlington, Donnan) and the schools with «lead partners» (Washington, Broad Ripple)?

EdisonLearning, which IDOE intends to appoint as a turnaround school operator in Gary, is a New York - based private education firm.

While the Indiana Department of Education's been careful to leave its options open for how to handle schools labeled as failing — it's still entirely possible some of these schools may actually be shut down — Bennett's been hinting at bringing in «turnaround school operators» to work with these underperforming schools for months.

Administrations in schools with turnaround school operators have effectively been replaced by these private companies, which will run «all or part of the school's operations,» according to an IDOE statement released Thursday afternoon.

Earlier in the day, Bennett announced Gary's Roosevelt Career & Technical Academy would be taken over by a turnaround school operator.

So instead of creating quality schools in every neighborhood, what CPS has done is created this two - tier system and actually is closing down, as you said, neighborhood schools under Renaissance 2010 and replacing them with charter schools and a privatized education system, firing or laying off, I should say, certified teachers, dismantling locally elected school councils, and creating a market of public education in Chicago, turning schools over to private turnaround operators.

If anything, the process of selecting turnaround school operators suggests a high likelihood at least one will be involved in the state's intervention.

Takeovers: Indiana Department of Education officials signed contracts with several «turnaround operators» to run five public schools in Indianapolis and Gary with chronically poor standardized test scores.

School operators, community organizations, funders, and policymakers will all benefit from understanding restarts as an important turnaround intervention for both low - performing district and charter schools.

A 2015 Vanderbilt University study concluded that iZone schools outperform those that were taken over by the state and given to charter school operators to lead the turnaround work.

The ASD has collaborated with high - performing charter operators to conduct school turnarounds in neighborhood schools; collaborated with philanthropic leaders to build a sustainable educator talent pipeline for the bottom 5 percent of the state's schools; engaged neighborhood communities in the process of matching charter operators to schools selected into the ASD; and influenced district - led turnaround efforts.

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