This Week In Education: Turnarounds: The Charlotte-Mecklenberg Model

This Week In Education: Turnarounds: The Charlotte-Mecklenberg Model

Turnarounds: The Charlotte-Mecklenberg Model

by Alexander Russo

It's a tailored turnaround, a school reform version of of a poker game where you can toss out a few cards you don't like and get new ones. Here's how it works: take your best principals, offer them a three year stint revamping the district's worst schools (and a raise). They get to bring in eight handpicked