Region Planning for School Restructuring Comprehensive Year 4 Presented by: Lee Ann Kwiatkowski Jamie Miller August 6, 2008
Slide 2Purpose of telephone meeting Overview of necessities USDE LEA & School Improvement Non-Regulatory Guidance Differentiated Accountability Review arrange format Identification of assets Questions and replies
Slide 3What is rebuilding? A school that misses its yearly accomplishment focuses for at least five years is distinguished for rebuilding The LEA must make the rebuilding arrangement If the school does not make AYP for a long time, the LEA must actualize the arrangement
Slide 4What is rebuilding under Differentiated Accountability? Just schools recognized as Comprehensive must Restructure No progressions to course of events Planning – Year 4 Implementation – Beginning Year 5 "Other Alternative Governance" Eliminated as Restructuring Option Districts with Schools in Year 8 (Comprehensive) must submit and freely safeguard Restructuring Plan to IDOE
Slide 5Restructuring Options Replace foremost if pioneer has continued as before amid supported inability to make AYP and trade all staff in charge of inability to make AYP Close the school Reopen school as a sanction school Contract with a private administration organization with showed adequacy to run the school Note: The "other" class of rebuilding is disposed of.
Slide 6What is the course of events? Rebuilding is a two-stage handle arranging and executing March 2008-AYP discharged July 2008 – Differentiated Accountability endorsed School year 2008-2009 - getting ready for rebuilding June 1, 2009-rebuilding arrangements are because of IDOE Summer 2009-start actualizing the arrangement
Slide 7What are the warning necessities? The LEA must-Provide both guardians and instructors warning Provide both gatherings chances to remark before any rebuilding move is made Invite educators and guardians to take an interest in the improvement of the school's rebuilding arrangement 1116(b)(8)(C)
Slide 8What different moves should the LEA make? Keep on offering School Choice Continue to offer Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Continue to execute school change arrange, including all prerequisites under Differentiated Accountability
Slide 9What different moves should the LEA make? proceeded with The LEA must give guardians and educators a chance to remark before the LEA builds up the rebuilding arrangement or takes rebuilding activities. Guardians and instructors should likewise be furnished with the chance to take an interest in the advancement of the arrangement. The LEA must be straightforward about the understudy accomplishment and general state of the school .
Slide 10What are the option administration choices? Revive the school as an open sanction school; Replace essential if pioneer has continued as before amid maintained inability to make AYP and trade all staff in charge of inability to make AYP; Enter into an agreement with an element, for example, a private administration organization, with an exhibited record of adequacy, to work the school as a government funded school; or Close the school.
Slide 11RESOURCES U.S. Branch of Education LEA and School Improvement Non-Regulatory Guidance: July 21, 2006 http://www.ed.gov/strategy/elsec/guid/schoolimprovementguid.doc Indiana Department of Education Office of Title I Academic Support Restructuring Plan Overview and Template
Slide 12RESOURCES Center on Innovation and Improvement http://www.centerii.org/handbook/Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement http://www.centerforcsri.org/documents/RestructuringGuide.pdf
Slide 13RESTRUCTURING PLAN TEMPLATE Required pages District and school data Approval/Signatures Certification of counsel Form A: Proposed rebuilding choices Complete the proper pages for the rebuilding option(s) chose 12-13 14-15 16 17
Slide 14RESTRUCTURING PLAN TEMPLATE Optional pages School demographics and qualities Analysis of the school's program Resource reallocation Process for investigation of the school's program
Slide 15Option 1: Reopen as a contract school Indicate this choice is being chosen. Contact the Office of Student Learning Choices
Slide 16Option 2: Replace Staff Indicate alternative is being chosen and finish pages. Staff enrollment, determination, and bolster Administrative/Instructional authority List of staff changes
Slide 17Option 3: Enter into a Contract with an Education Management Organization Indicate choice is being chosen and give the accompanying: A portrayal of the area's choice and obtainment handle for contracting with an Education Management Organization (EMO); A duplicate of the assention between the state funded school region and the EMO, including obligations, courses of events, systems for advance observing and conditions for end of the understanding; A depiction of changes to be executed by the EMO at the rebuilt school.
Slide 18Option 4: Close the school Indicate compelling date of school conclusion
Slide 19Optional Pages Analysis of the school's program Examining asset reallocation
Slide 20Frequently Asked Questions
Slide 21What about aggregate haggling understandings? Area 1116(d) gives that none of the arrangements for school change for inability to make AYP may lessen the rights or cures of representatives under the terms of an aggregate bartering understanding. The arrangement must be executed working together with the reason for Title I.
Slide 22How do Title I and aggregate haggling cooperate? A LEA that acknowledges subsidizes under Title I should conform to statutory prerequisites, despite any terms or states of its aggregate bartering understandings. In spite of the fact that area 1116(d) does not negate representative assurance that exit under aggregate bartering, it doesn't excluded SEAs, LEAs or schools from consistence from Title I, Part A.
Slide 23How do Title I and aggregate haggling cooperate? State and LEA powers need to guarantee that adjustments in State and nearby laws are steady with Title I necessities and that any progressions to aggregate haggling understandings or new assentions are additionally reliable with Title I.
Slide 24Does the State have an endorsed rundown of Education Management Organizations (EMO's) for Option 3? In the case of selecting Option 3, it is the area's duty to contract with an EMO that has an exhibited record of viability. The accompanying rundown are illustrations just of EMO's. This rundown does not constitute an underwriting by IDOE. Edison Schools Foundations, Inc. All inclusive Companies Victory Schools Mosaica Education
Slide 25How is shutting the school unique in relation to shutting the school and re-opening as a contract school? Alternative 4 – Closing the school implies that the school closes and understudies are exchanged to other existing state funded schools inside the region Option 1 – Close and re-open as a government funded school implies that the school closes however is rebuilt as a sanction school
Slide 26What is the meaning of another school? A school will be viewed as a "new" school for responsibility purposes in the event that it meets the accompanying limit criteria: (1) a change of no less than 50 percent of the understudy populace from the earlier year; or (2) an adjustment in review arrangement that includes no less than 50 percent of the previous review levels, either by end or expansion; joined by critical change in instructive logic or staffing.
Slide 27What has occurred in Indiana? Schools have shut Schools have been reconfigured (7-8 has changed to K-6) Boys and Girls foundations have been planned Principals have changed Mentor principals have been employed Strategies have changed (e.g. extend based learning) Alternative Governance Committees have been built up District work force have been appointed half days to the school The school day and school year have been stretched out Staff sign a shape to consent to remain in the school for a predefined day and age Principal and staff have been supplanted
Slide 28Next Steps District gives warning of the rebuilding status of schools to instructors and guardians of every understudy enlisted in a distinguished school before the begin of the 2008-2009 school year. Region conducts far reaching information and causal investigations of purposes behind low understudy accomplishment in recognized school(s). Area makes assurance of the fitting rebuilding option(s) for each distinguished school and creates draft of rebuilding arrangement for every school.
Slide 29Contacts 877-418-7240 or 317-232-0540 lkwiat@doe.in.gov jmiller@doe.in.gov http://www.doe.state.in.us/TitleI/welcome.html
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