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Download full textSmith, Nelson – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2014
What happens when policymakers create statewide school districts to turn around their worst-performing public schools? In Louisiana and Tennessee, Recovery School Districts (RSDs) have made modest-to-strong progress for kids and serve as national models for what the future of education governance might hold. In the Great Lakes State, the story is…
Descriptors: School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, School Turnaround
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"Reopening the school as a public charter school" is Option #1 on the list of NCLB's restructuring alternatives for failing schools. But this has not proved a popular choice. NCLB made the bold assumption that states and districts would voluntarily turn over the reins to charter operators. The authors of the legislation must have…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Officials, Charter Schools, School Districts
