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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.

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The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

It's a remarkable turnaround for a politician who once sold his car two weeks before a primary to raise badly - needed campaign cash, barely won a Democratic district leader race and was told by an opponent that the state attorney general — now Gov. Andrew Cuomo — should investigate him for corruption.

Interim Buffalo School Superintendent Don Ogilvie says the school district has a Friday deadline to submit a round of proposed turnaround plans for four failing city schools to prevent closure by the New York State Education Department.

And most of those turnarounds were initiated, at least somewhat enthusiastically, by district officials.

Turnarounds forced upon districts by angry parents seem destined to fail.

A district also must focus early wins on student learning to fit the turnaround formula, perhaps by adopting similar goals for one subset of struggling children or a few low - performing schools.

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Much of the gap can be filled, however, by allowing states to allocate more of their federal dollars to supporting turnaround efforts in low - performing districts.

«I had this drive to know that there's millions of kids out there like me who are not served well by the existing system,» says Hay, who over his career worked in a range of environments from affluent communities to a struggling district turnaround school.

First, make sure your your school district is ready to support a school turnaround by completing this self - assessment.

And turnaround schools, both in Chicago and in other urban districts like Philadelphia, are experiencing significant enrollment loss — driven largely by the rapid expansion of charter high schools — that in some ways hinders improvement.

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).

Many of those schools have been failing for a decade or longer despite numerous turnaround efforts, largely because they have been overseen by districts that are themselves failing.

Week after week, month after month, the outside consultants disrupt the efforts to «turnaround» districts by demanding more and more «data» for some new software program they've purchased.

Yet Rotherham fails to remember that turnarounds of failing schools rarely succeed because they are handled by equally failing districts.

While Kline's proposal to end the federal School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure mills.

The Network provides site - based coaches and regional coordinators — recruited, trained, and placed by Education Northwest — to help schools and districts identify evidence - based practices that can support their turnaround efforts.

Overview: In 2012, Match Education was contracted by Lawrence Public Schools to provide its tutoring services for two years to all students in grade 9 and 10 in two of its lowest performing high schools as part of a district - wide turnaround effort, under receivership of the Massachusetts Department of Education.

A team from the non-profit, led by Ami Magunia, assists Hillyard and her two district employees in implementing turnaround strategies.

The district has also showed progress in the turnaround work with their Year 0 turnaround cohort producing real momentum at previously low - performing schools by prioritizing family voice and new academic designs.

State and District leaders can help more turnaround - attempt schools succeed by selecting the right principals, training them, helping them transition to school models supported by teacher - leadership, tracking leading indicators of performance, and coaching principals to make needed changes fast.

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.

Another week of legislative debate over the proposed Opportunity School District school turnaround plan culminates in a visit by Governor Jeb Bush and rap star Ludacris to the Georgia statehouse, in support of school choice, charters, and the OSD.

One such bill is SB 1552 by Altamonte Springs Republican David Simmons which would encourage school turnaround efforts in which districts extend their school days by at least an hour, provide students with wraparound services, or give charter - like autonomy to their principals.

They then recommend that state and district leaders focus on two critical policy changes: (1) creating political will by developing the capacity to take charge of failing schools when districts don't act and (2) fueling the pipeline of K - 12 turnaround leaders.

While some of the logistics for school turnaround efforts will be changing in various ways under ESSA, many of the details, insights, and strategies provided by SEAs through these surveys and interviews are still relevant to helping SEAs think about how to provide high - quality support to districts on school turnaround.

SchoolSeed supported the nationally recognized turnaround model and the District by raising private resources to support the nationally recognized work of low performing schools.

UVA - PLE is one of the most established school turnaround programs in the country and utilizes a systemic approach to change by working with schools, districts, and states to build internal capacity.

Johnson is honored for his success in overseeing a remarkable turnaround in student achievement in the district by focusing on student learning and teacher collaboration.

DTLI resulted in a blueprint for a comprehensive turnaround program for Texas that builds district capacity to support school improvement by strengthening four essential systemic levers: leadership, instructional infrastructure, support and accountability, and talent management.

Legislators are currently considering four other CTU - supported bills that directly impact conditions in public schools: HB 5481, requiring school districts to report class size data to ISBE and sets targets for K - 12 class sizes beginning in 2020; HB5721, which mandates improved public input and transparency in CPS capital spending and provides supports for schools and students hit with school actions like closings and turnarounds; HB 3786, which requires fully empowered local school councils in publicly funded schools, including charters, that must vote by a super-majority to approve school closures and reorganizations; and HB 4800, which would move surplus TIF funds to public education needs.

A four - year study of turnaround efforts in Sanger Unified School District — named by the state of California as one of its 98 lowest - performing districts in 2004 — stands out as a proof point of effective methods.

And $ 25 million over the next two years to «transform» 25 district schools by setting up a «Commissioner's Network where low performing schools would voluntarily participate and allow the state to take over their schools or help them partner with universities or other regional education centers to implement turnaround interventions.»

Choudhury said the district would revoke Democracy Prep's charter by 2020 if the turnaround was not successful.

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.

The details were daunting: the budget deficit was projected to reach nearly half a billion dollars in three years; a district audit showed LA Unified debt outstripped assets by $ 4.2 billion; unfunded pensions topped $ 13 billion and have more than doubled since 2005; per - pupil funding had doubled but the district still faces financial crisis; and plans for a turnaround included boosting enrollment but not cutting staff.

Current education policy focuses on a failed strategy of school and district «turnarounds;» characterized by staff shake - ups and pedagogical practices that focus narrowly on raising test scores.

Like our turnaround and transformation process, our performance management services focus on shifting the culture of the school and district by engaging all parties in the decision making, in order to address the related issues — hiring practices, working conditions, professional development, recruitment, and compensation — that impact the effectiveness of the evaluation system.

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.

Tennessee Education Commissioner Candice McQueen said yesterday that despite a desire to move a struggling Memphis middle school into a proven local turnaround model managed by the district, she is insisting the school be moved into the failing Achievement School Districdistrict, she is insisting the school be moved into the failing Achievement School DistrictDistrict (ASD).

Diminished funding, school closings, turnarounds, takeovers, vouchers and the privatization of schools proliferate in a contemporary wave of reforms taking urban districts by storm.