Turning around

Some excellent points here  from Philadelphia on turnaround schools:

The District should be convening public discussions and working seriously to address several key, unanswered questions:

• Have communities embraced the educational models?

• Are we seeing indicators of academic improvement on measures besides state tests?

• What are the pros and cons of shuffling entire teaching staffs?

• What must happen to sustain improvements over time?

• Can some of these models be scaled up? How will we pay for that?

  How can we ensure that the students with greatest need are served? 

Also, I really hope someone's looking into that allegation of bullying leadership. That's no good.