Schools Get a 'Restart'
May 13th, 2011
In a possible effort to explore alternatives to simply shutting down schools it considers to be failing, the Department of Education has announced that it has designated 22 struggling schools as “restart.” The schools are on the state’s list of persistently lowest achieving schools
Each school will be eligible for — though not guaranteed — up to $2 million a year for three years in federal funding. It will work with an as-yet-to-be-named nonprofit to turn the school around. Under federal rules, that could be a charter operator oran education management organization. Although some of the schools had been viewed for possible closure in the past, all will remain open and accept students next year for fall 2012.
The Obama administration has four models for troubled schools: Turnaround, Restart, Transformation and Closure. Turnaround and Transformation required the city to reach agreement with the United Federation of Teachers on measures that could have included a longer school day and getting rid of half the school’s staff. Once those talks broke down, the city was left with a choice of Restart and Closure.
The 22 schools include middle and high schols and feature a number of the large ocprehensive high schools sumialr to those the city has shut down over the past several years. Among those are Washington Irving in Manhattan, Grover Cleveland in Queens, Herbert Lehman in the Bronx, and John Dewey and Boys and Girl in Brooklyn.
Nine other schools on the list will neither be closed nor slated for restart. Despite that, the department said, these schools could stil work to implement an improvement plan.
List of schools after the jump.
The restart schools are:
Washington Irving High School.
Herbert H. Lehman High School
Banana Kelly High School
JHS22 Jordan Mott
IS 339
Bronx High School of Business
JHS 80 Moshulu Parkway
MS 391
Grace H. Dodge Career and Tech High School
John Ericsson Middle School 126
IS 136 Charles O. Dewey
Boys and Girls High School
JHS166 George Gershwin
John Dewey High School
Sheepshead Bay High School
Newtown High School
Grover Cleveland High School
August arin High School
Richmond Hill High School
John Adams High School
William Cullen Bryant High School
Bushwick Community High School
The nine schools not designated for restart
High School of Graphic Communication Arts
Harlem Renaissance High School
Alfred E. Smith Career Technical High School
Samuel Gompers Career Tech High School
Jane Addams High School for Academic Careers
Fordham Leadership Academy
JHS142 John Philip Souse
W H Maxwell Career and Tech High School
JHS 296 The Halsey
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