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Making School Turnaround A National Priority
Large numbers of schools across the country are low performing and have been for years. This longstanding, widespread problem reveals that districts and states, as well as schools, wrestle with how to turn around struggling schools. Federal policy can play a key role in rectifying the systemic failures that allow schools to flounder. The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is a ripe opportunity to revise the law's main program that supports school turnaround, the School Improvement Grant fund.
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New STG Publication - School Turnaround Grants: Take 2
The School Turnaround Group (STG) is pleased to share a new report on how states can leverage funds provided by the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program to drive dramatic reform. This publication, School Improvement Grants: Take 2, provides local and state officials with a framework to revise the Round 2 process.
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Successful School Turnaround in Chicago
In Chicago, Sherman Elementary School begins its fifth successful year of school turnaround under the AUSL model.
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Turning Around Low-Performing Schools (NPR Story)
October 05, 2010 - The Obama administration has made a priority of what's called "school turnaround," or changing what are now the lowest performing schools. The administration has made $3 ...
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Inexperienced Companies Chase U.S. School Funds
Justin Cohen, President of the School Turnaround Group at Mass Insight, was recently quoted in a NYTimes article, discussing how dozens of companies are now entering the turnaround space and competing for federal money. Unfortunately, with little or no experience overhauling failing schools, the vast majority of people entering the field are not ready to do the work.
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Least-Disruptive Turnaround Model Proving Popular
A recent EdWeek article notes that many schools are selecting the "transformation" school improvement model, which may be the easiest thing to do politically, but it is the hardest to do technically.