Not exact matches
Districts must choose
among five school - improvement
strategies for priority schools: transformation,
turnaround, whole school reform, restart, or closure.
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.
Public Impact produced some of the earliest work guiding states and districts choosing
among school
turnaround strategies and has been the field leader in providing research, guidance and implementation support for
turnarounds within schools, charter restarts and innovation zones.