Conditions
Turnaround requires an environment that is conducive to dramatic school improvement. These conditions include: increased autonomy and flexibility, additional resources and funding, streamlined compliance, and an emphasis on quality curricula, instruction, assessment, and data. The publications in this section detail the conditions that allow for successful turnaround and offer strategies for creating these conditions.
- Modifying Collective Bargaining Agreements for School Turnaround: CBA Toolkit
- School Improvement Grants: Take 2
- Enabling Turnaround through State Policy
- State use of School Improvement Grants
- Recommended State Criteria for Operating and Instructional Conditions
- State Policies to Transform Struggling Schools: How Various State Policies can be used to Enable School and District Turnaround
- Funding Flexibility and Waiver Option
- Creating the Conditions: Partnership Zones