Sentences with phrase «statewide turnaround districts»

When Louisiana and Tennessee wanted to focus on their lowest - performing schools, they created statewide turnaround districts, which pull individual schools under state control.

Though they vary widely in policy and practice, experience in the Achievement School District, the Recovery School District, and other statewide turnaround districts points to the central importance of both a sufficient and sustainable talent pipeline and clear, honest communication with students, parents, and communities affected by the changes.

This summer, a Virginia circuit court judge ruled that statewide turnaround districts were unconstitutional in that state.

Even without Race to the Top incentives, proposals for new statewide turnaround districts continue to pop up.

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.

During the 2014 gubernatorial campaign, Texas attorney general Greg Abbott published an education platform that included a statewide turnaround district drawing heavily on the Louisiana and Tennessee models.

Since Louisiana first established a statewide turnaround district in 2003, though, a small but increasing number of states have created «EADs,» providing lessons others can follow in planning their own turnaround approach.

Not exact matches

«We look forward to working with PIER Fellows to analyze the implementation and impact of statewide initiatives such as our curriculum frameworks, educator evaluation framework, and school and district turnaround efforts.

Recovery, Achievement, Opportunity, Transformation: these are the titles and aspirations of statewide «turnaround» school districts whose mission is to take over failing public schools and move them quickly to an acceptable range of performance.

Authorizing charter schools to turn around some of the state's lowest - performing schools through the statewide turnaround Achievement School District.

It's been three years since Tennessee implemented the Achievement School District (ASD), a statewide district to turnaround the state's lowest - performing schools by pulling individual schools under state District (ASD), a statewide district to turnaround the state's lowest - performing schools by pulling individual schools under state district to turnaround the state's lowest - performing schools by pulling individual schools under state control.

Many districts didn't like working with these groups, and after the Evansville school district made dramatic improvements in its failing schools using the turnaround method, legislators approved the idea for statewide use.