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Sunday, December 4, 2011

The Turnaround Timeline Simplified | The Classroom Sooth

The Turnaround Timeline Simplified | The Classroom Sooth:

The Turnaround Timeline Simplified

In Chicago, and nationally, if schools don’t “work” we close them down or turn them around. If we take a look at why they do not “work” however, we see a pattern of strategic decision-making:

1) Chronically under-resource a school.
2) Declare it a “failure” after when you have a couple years of test-score results.
3) Throw it away and tell the students and educators to go elsewhere.
4) Re-open the building as a charter school with a $1 lease the following year.

Chicago attorney and edu-journalist Matt Farmer recently reported on th