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Three big questions as de Blasio's school turnaround program approaches the three-year mark

When Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his high-profile turnaround plan for 94 of the city’s lowest-performing schools, he promised to flood them with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of social services and academic support so they could meet an ambitious goal: “fast and intense” improvement within three years.

This week, as the so-called Renewal initiative approaches the end of its third year, education officials proposed to close or merge nine schools in the program, after previously closing or consolidating eight others. Those decisions, and uneven progress at many of the remaining Renewal schools, reopens longstanding questions about how the program is working, how it should be judged — and what its future looks like.

http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2017/01/12/three-big-questions-as-de-blasios-school-turnaround-program-approaches-the-three-year-mark/

 

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