Resource Spotlight (Search Archive)
The School Improvement Grant Rollout in America’s Great City Schools (pdf)
Lachlan-Haché , J., Naik, M., & Casserly, M. (2012, February)
Washington, DC: Council of the Great City Schools
This report “finds that urban school districts mounted an unprecedented number of school turnaround efforts in the 2010–2011 school year with funds from the revamped federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.…The report offers a detailed picture of the specific strategies being pursued in urban schools across the country,” finding cities are using the turnaround and closure models at about twice the rate of the nation as a whole.
State Spotlight (Search Archive)
The Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State
Smith, N. (2012, January)
Washington, DC: Thomas B. Fordham Institute
In considering new governance strategies for persistently failing schools and districts, “policymakers are wise to look at the experiences of other states. Among the boldest and most interesting of these is Louisiana’s Recovery School District (RSD), which is accomplishing both significant gains in student achievement and consequential impacts on district-level standards and governance….Similar entities are now operating in Michigan and Tennessee.”
(See the critique by K.L. Buras)
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