Sentences with phrase «school turnaround options»

In its draft guidance for the program, the department proposed expanding the school turnaround options for districts with underperforming schools to include three new strategies — a state - developed intervention, evidence - based whole school reform, and an early learning intervention — in addition to the four existing strategies in the SIG program.

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In 2009, the federal government overhauled the Title I School Improvement Grant program, increased its value to $ 3.5 billion with money from the recovery act, and spelled out four turnaround options from which perennially failing schools would have to choose to get a share of the funding.

Better at When Than How As school districts around the country grapple with turnaround strategies and fiscal realities, school closure (and consolidation) has become a popular option in districts from Baltimore to Detroit, from Boston to Denver, even in rural places like Maine and North Dakota.

Detroit parents still have very few high - quality options, despite a number of different reform interventions, including putting a state - appointed emergency manager in charge of the district, pulling the lowest - performing schools into a statewide turnaround district, and allowing a significant number of charter schools to operate.

They emerged in an effort to turnaround vocational schools that were looked down upon within their communities; diversify educational options; and help industry find the mid-level managers who are both critical and hard to find.

About 20 percent of the SIG schools chose the second option, the «turnaround» model, which required replacing at least half the staff.

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Arguing that current federal reform models are failing struggling rural schools, a new report makes the case for a new «community schools» turnaround option.

And when the Obama administration attempted to jump - start stalled interventions under NCLB with redesigned School Improvement Grants, we learned yet again that even a convoluted «rule of nine» can't «make» districts choose the turnaround options that they find most challenging (even if those are the options with the strongest odds of doing well by kids).

Some schools using the second-most popular option — «turnaround,» which calls for getting rid of at least half a school's staff — scrambled to fill slots, or hired scores of novice teachers.

The education reform bill, passed last year by the state legislature with overwhelming support and signed by Governor Dannel P. Malloy, grows high - performing public school options, provides fairer funding for public charter school students, and creates a Commissioner's Network to turnaround our state's chronically failing schools.

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.

And although the spending agreement maintains funding for another administration favorite (the School Improvement Grant program) at sequestration levels, it overhauls the program's turnaround options.

The series includes a guide to help district and state leaders choose the best restructuring option for each school, updated in a 2nd edition released in 2009, and white papers identifying what we know from research about when the first four restructuring options under NCLB work: reopening as a charter school, contracting with external providers, turnarounds with new leaders and staff, and state takeovers.

Outside California, only four laws — in Louisiana, Texas, Michigan and a pilot process in Columbus, Ohio — have met Parent Revolution's minimum standards, which include requiring the petition support of a simple majority of parents, serving the same students once the school gets transformed and offering at least one turnaround option that would bring on entirely new management.

When faced with the option to set up a «lead partnership» intervention at an Indianapolis high school last year, board members declined after district officials hired an outside school turnaround team.

In terms of addressing the struggling neighborhood schools — which would still remain, even if a «school of hope» came to town and offered parents another option — the bill expedites turnaround strategies, so that students don't languish for years in schools with a failing status.

There is no evidence that scaling charter schools as turnaround options will lead to greater academic success for lower performing students.

«There is no evidence that scaling charter schools as turnaround options will lead to greater academic success for lower performing students,» Vitti wrote to lawmakers on April 17.

The Christie administration under state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf doesn't shy from it, listing it as a possible option in turnaround efforts now underway at more than 70 schools statewide.

Under the bill, nonprofit groups can also support turnaround work or create new school options.

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.

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.

Restarts represent a more dramatic intervention compared with internal school turnaround initiatives, and a preferable alternative to closing schools when students do not have access to other quality options.

More than 90 percent of the schools in the program have selected one of two options --» turnaround» and «transformation» — that mandate more time.