Sentences with phrase «turnaround district»

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

Other states have created what amount to turnaround districts in name only.

The brief history of turnaround districts also raises new questions about who represents «the state» itself.

Leap Innovations in particular has awarded 7 grants to charter and turnaround district schools in the Chicago area.

Governor Nathan Deal floated the idea of a state turnaround district in his first term; following his 2014 re-election, he made it a cornerstone of his education agenda.

The creation of turnaround districts by states, indeed even the serious contemplation of such a move, suggests a real restlessness with the ability of traditional K — 12 governance to act on persistent school failure.

An article about Tennessee's Achievement School District and other state - run turnaround districts, «Turnaround School Districts: States try managing lowest performing schools,» by Nelson Smith, was published earlier this year by Education Next.

By his third - year residency in Memphis at the Tennessee Achievement School District — the state's turnaround district aimed at bringing the bottom performing 5 percent of schools into the top performing 25 percent within five years — he found his initial interests that brought him to Ed.L.D.

That's how he frames his role as superintendent of the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, New York, delegating much of the day - to - day work of running a high - poverty turnaround district of 6,800 students to look ahead and concentrate on the big picture.

As with technology, as with accountability, as with charters and teacher certification and so much more, turnaround districts call for close scrutiny and honest reckoning as well as continuing invention and refinement.

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.

Demond Means, a Milwaukee Public Schools graduate who heads one of the state's highest - performing school systems, has been tapped to lead — at least for now — a Milwaukee turnaround district mandated by the Legislature in hopes of turning around some of the city's poorest - performing schools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce Thursday.

«If we don't solve the charter supply problem, we can have as many of these [turnaround districts] on the books as we want, but it's going to be very difficult for them to actually be executed and done well.»

«The bottom line is that there are not a lot of great charter operators to begin with, and there are even fewer who understand how to do turnaround,» he said during a panel of turnaround district leaders hosted by the pro-charter school Fordham Institute.

A state authorized turnaround district, the ASD is under the purview of the Tennessee Department of Education.

The board is excited to be participating in the Center on School Turnaround Board Training and to have access to case studies and exemplars from other successful turnaround districts and boards.»

As one of our US team members observed, when students in his former US turnaround district struggled in math, they were just drilled in more and more math until they couldn't bear math any longer.

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.

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In addition to Tennessee, other state legislatures have created statewide turnaround districts, including Louisiana in 2003, Michigan in 2011, Virginia in 2013, and Nevada in 2015, and Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Mississippi are considering them.

Nelson Smith, former CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and Brandon L. Wright of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute write about three approaches that are already in use: charter expansion, state turnaround districts, and state - led, district - based solutions.

While not spreading like wildfire, the idea of turnaround districts has caught the imagination of leaders in a growing list of states.

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.

When the Education Achievement Authority (EAA), the state of Michigan's school turnaround district, launched in the fall of 2012 with 15 schools, hopes for rebirth in Detroit were high in many quarters.

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.

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For all their complexity and variation, turnaround districts have two things in common: One, they give impatient state policymakers a potentially powerful new tool for dealing with perennial school dysfunction.

The EAA was conceived as a statewide turnaround district but operates only in Detroit after failing repeatedly to win legislative permission to expand.

The turnaround district is a major structural, policy and governance innovation within the world of American public education, but innovations don't always work.

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

Writing about the RSD as a turnaround district in 2015 is challenging because its age, origins, and scale are so different from those of the other two active districts.

The question raised by the RSD today is less «Can a turnaround district work?»

«The MDE's position will create an incentive for this new governance arrangement to focus on its goal to turnaround the district in a timely manner,» Wong said.

«Extraordinary authority districts» — turnaround districts in which states gain legal authority to take over and operate chronically underperforming schools and / or districts — can fundamentally transform school structures and practices.

One such lesson is that success in turnaround districts isn't cheap or easy, especially at the high school level.

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