Renaissance School reviews now online
by Paul Socolar on Mar 31 2010
The 14 schools that were just named to be eitherRenaissance Schools or Promise Academies all underwent a school review process in February or March, conducted by Schoolworks, and the summary findings of those reviews are now accessible via the District website.
They make for interesting reading.
The purpose of the school reviews was to add a qualitative dimension to the process of naming Renaissance Schools, since the list of 14 Renaissance Eligible schools was based entirely on their poor school performance data.
The District had said that schools would be taken off the Renaissance list if the review showed strong evidence that they were already undergoing a turnaround, but Superintendent Ackerman said Tuesday that she thought all 14 schools needed radical intervention. And so at all the schools, the staff is being force-transferred and an outside provider or the Superintendent’s office will be put in