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ATLANTA On Thursday, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and the Southern Education Foundation released a new report criticizing the proposed state takeover district in Georgia and urging the state to instead turn to evidence - based reform strategies such as sustainable community schools.

Their plan will gut Milwaukee Public Schools, the largest school district in the state of Wisconsin, by converting it to the same type of takeover district that has produced disastrous results in cities like Detroit and New Orleans.

Another eight states have introduced legislation to create statewide takeover districts in the last year: Arkansas, Georgia, Nevada, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin.1

But it is unlikely that they would take on a role similar to those in New Orleans and Memphis because this spring, two pieces of legislation that would have created a statewide takeover district in Mississippi, similar to Louisiana's and Tennessee's, failed to make it out of the House and Senate.

But Bryan says many politicians and educators weighed in on the idea to create a charter school takeover district.

In the coming weeks, Hall is expected to put forth recommendations to the State Board of Education on at least two K - 5 schools that will be absorbed in 2018 - 2019 by the state's new charter takeover district, which aims to turn around student performance in some of North Carolina's lowest - performing schools.

Supporters of state takeover districts nationwide consistently make the mistake of seizing low - performing schools without having a clear end game or exit strategy for schools that recover or fail under state stewardship

The potential return of schools in New Orleans offers other U.S. takeover districts — like Detroit's Education Achievement Authority and the Achievement School District in Memphis — a blueprint for return.

Incredibly, grants are headed to Georgia to open 20 new charter schools under the Opportunity School District — the proposed state takeover district — even a public vote on the plan is still weeks away.

After a district returns to local control and a new superintendent is hired, conservators may move to another takeover district.

Time and time again, Means has mentioned that there is no dedicated source of funding for this Takeover district; claiming he will rely on philanthropic donations.

One applicant, Achievement for All Children (AAC), formed last year under the leadership of several prominent school choice backers, including a former state lawmaker who led the push to create the takeover district.

Takeover districts that facilitate charter expansion are not part of anyone's black agenda.

And then there's the nowhere - near - resolved debate over reforms in the state's takeover districts, most notably in Newark and Camden.

PARCC, school funding, teacher evaluations, takeover districts it's going to be an interesting year for New Jersey public schools

The rapid proliferation of the takeover district as an educational panacea is alarming.

In the past decade, the debate over school control has shifted to include «takeover districts» in which schools that are deemed «chronically failing» are removed from the local school district and placed in a statewide district with a separate governance structure that is far less transpar - ent and accountable to the public.

In this report, we examine the record of the three existing takeover districts, and find that there is no clear evi - dence that takeover districts actually achieve their stated goals of radically improving performance at failing schools.

State takeover districts have created a breeding ground for fraud and mismanagement at the public's expense.

Despite the harsh criticism in places like Durham, state leaders have said they don't expect local opposition to deter them from choosing any particular school for the takeover district.

And, while he could not be reached for this report, Hall told Policy Watch last week that North Carolina's takeover district is much smaller than the Tennessee program, which utilized millions in federal grants to intervene in more than 30 schools in the Memphis and Nashville areas.

Yet public school advocates have been bitingly critical of the takeover district since North Carolina lawmakers approved its creation two years ago, pointing to the lackluster performance of similar efforts in Tennessee, Michigan and Louisiana.

AAC's leadership includes Rob Bryan, a former state lawmaker and current UNC Board of Governors member from Charlotte who shepherded the takeover district's creation in the General Assembly two years ago.