Turnaround strategies

There are some intriguing proposals in the District’s strategic plan, but these may get lost in the hubbub as the District stubbornly continues to pursue one bad idea that it should simply lay to rest – that by hiring school managers, it can hand off the problems of its lowest-performing schools.

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City agency collaboration: Can talk turn into action?

by Wendy Harris

Stemming the massive tide of dropouts will require a Herculean effort that no one person, organization, or city agency can shoulder alone. When Mayor Michael Nutter last year promised to cut the city’s dropout rate in half by 2014, he called for a new level of cooperation between the city and the District to help with prevention strategies.

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