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School improvement grant efforts face hurdles
- 04-25-2011
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By Alyson Klein/Education Week
More than a year after the U.S. Department of Education supercharged the program targeting the nation’s lowest performing schools, with an influx of cash and a big makeover of the governing rules, states and districts are sorting through a thicket of practical and logistical issues. Many of the challenges stem from navigating the four school improvement models outlined in federal regulations, which have been criticized as too restrictive. But, states and schools also are grappling with the general difficulty of accomplishing an already mammoth task—turning around schools that have demonstrated chronically poor academic outcomes—while making major changes on a relatively tight time frame. (more...)
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