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posted by: Pamela
| April 14, 2011, 05:12 PM
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The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Arkansas a $5.89 million grant to improve low achieving schools.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced last week the grant is part of the School Improvement Grants program.
This spring school districts will apply to the state for the funding. When applying, districts must adopt one of the school intervention models as outlined by the Department of Education.
The four different models are as follows:
- Turnaround model: Replace the principal and rehire no more than 50% of the staff, and grant the principal sufficient operational flexibility (including in staffing, calendars/time and budgeting) to fully implement a comprehensive approach to substantially improve student outcomes.
- Restart model: Convert a school or close and reopen it under a charter school operator, a charter management organization, or an education management organization that has been selected through a rigorous review process.
- School closure: Close a school and enroll the students who attended that school in other schools in the district that are higher achieving.
- Transformation model: Implement each of the following strategies: (1) replace the principal and take steps to increase teacher and school leader effectiveness; (2) institute comprehensive instructional reforms; (3) increase learning time and create community-oriented schools; and (4) provide operational flexibility and sustained support.
Which model do you think would be most effective?
Comment below.
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