On Governance, the report noted that, although the Office
of the
Special Prosecutor was established to help combat corruption and Public sensitization carried
out in 2017, little progress was made on other anti-corruption
measures on governance issues in the first
year.
• Leading a failing Alternative Provision academy
out of special measures in two terms • Coaching senior leaders to ensure rapid improvement in their schools • Developing outstanding Safeguarding practice as a member
of a inner city Children's Safeguarding Board • Leading a five -
year, # 28 million whole school re-building programme.
For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent
of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment
of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record
of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories
of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require
special education; (iv) limited English - proficient
of similar language proficiency level as
measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams
of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2
of the past 3
years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk
of dropping
out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped
out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups
of students.