Public Impact report profiles charter-to-charter restarts as an intervention strategy for low-performing charter schools. The report offers recommendations for board members and charter authorizers interested in pursuing a restart strategy, drawing on lessons learned from the school profiles and discussions with leaders in the field.
The Camden City School District released this press announcement in March 2015 to communicate its decision to “transform” five of its lowest performing schools through restarts with high-performing school operators.
This presentation outlines the 2014-15 accountability framework for schools operating with the TN ASD.
Public presentation by Philadelphia school district describes the purpose and need for restarts, process for selecting eligible schools, and role of community in the Renaissance 2013-14 process.
Presentation summarizes the recommendations of Philadelphia’s Renaissance School Advisory Board (RSAB) that provided guidance to the School District of Philadelphia on its restart process.
Document highlights the guiding principles and preliminary guiding principles for the sub-committees of Philadelphia’s Renaissance School Advisory Board (RSAB).
This report from the Philadelphia Renaissance School Advisory Board (RSAB) summarizes recommendations for the process by which the district should intervene in lowest performing schools.
This series of seven presentations was used to facilitate a community thought partner group in Denver.
This is a report commissioned by the DC Fund of New Schools Venture Fund. It profiles two charter-to-charter restarts and explores some of the challenges and lessons learned early in the process.
This report is a sample stoplight report produced by the Denver School Performance Rating.
The detailed rubric explains how points are computed and assigned for each indicator on the Denver Public Schools School Performance Framework.
The one-pager summarizes all the possible performance indicators and potential point values in the Denver School Performance Framework (SPF).
This document outlines the process, roles and timeline for a school quality review site visit to be conducted by DC PCSB.
This document from Denver Public Schools is a combined invitation for new operators to apply and for pre-approved operators to seek a match placement at specific sites in the city that are in need of restart.
This is a Denver Board of Education adopted policy that came out of the Denver Plan 2020 work. It establishes principles to guide the identification of schools for school replacement, restart and/or closure.
This guide to the Performance Management Framework (PMF) was created by the DC Public Charter School Board “so that school leaders, data managers, families, and other stakeholders would understand how each PMF score was calculated, which measures are used, and how these measures are weighed to form a score.”
This policy document outlines how schools and districts are designated for turnaround status in Colorado and what happens if they remain in turnaround status for several years.
This presentation was used by Camden City School District in March 2015 to communicate options that Camden is exploring to improve its lowest performing schools.
This Louisiana Recovery School District (RSD) presentation describes the process for selecting schools for closure and restart.
This Louisiana Recovery School District (RSD) presentation summarizes the activities of the Baton Rouge Achievement Zone Advisory Board (BRAZAB).