Stories tagged: TAKEOVER
Waiting for the Renaissance
Submitted by thenotebook on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 09:34 | Permalink
This is the front page article from our February 2010 edition of the paper. Look for more stories online and the print edition later this week!
Article by Bill Hangley, Jr.
It’s nothing new for Janiece Jones to wonder about the future of her child’s school.
“It was supposed to be closed down,” she said as she stood in front of the Paul L. Dunbar Elementary School in North Philadelphia. “[Then] they just said that someone was going to try and change the performance of the school.”
The first rumor didn’t come to pass. But the second just might, in potentially dramatic fashion.
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Renew or terminate? SRC to decide in spring
by Tina Collins Posted in Fall 2006 | Permalink
When the School Reform Commission decides in spring 2007 whether to renew the District's multi-million dollar contracts with six school managers, improvement in test scores will be their primary consideration, according to District officials.
Contracts with the six managers, sometimes called “education management organizations” or EMOs, cover 41 schools. They expire at the end of the school year.
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Comparing Philadelphia's diverse providers: some recent reports
by Paul Socolar Posted in Fall 2006 | Permalink
Published test scores are just one of the means that are available to make comparisons of the success of different management approaches. The performance of privately managed schools has lagged behind District schools on some 2006 performance indicators. In more sophisticated analysis by researchers, no evidence has been found that any of the management models are superior to others.
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Turning to outside organizations to do more jobs
by Betsey Useem and Kendal Rinko Posted in Fall 2006 | Permalink
Philadelphia public school leaders seeking solutions to pressing issues such as running disciplinary schools, training student teachers, or providing technology-based learning interventions have increasingly turned to external organizations to do the job.
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Renaissance School provider applicants await the first cut
by Dale Mezzacappa
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