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Obama's education initiative
President Obama has announced a program to improve the nation's lowest-performing schools using $900 million in grants. To receive the money, states and school districts must agree to one of four reform models, including: replacing the school principal and half of the staff; closing the school and reopening under charter school operation; closing a campus and enrolling students in higher-performing schools; and a transformational model addressing teacher effectiveness, instruction, learning and teacher planning time, and operational flexibility.
President Obama has announced a program to improve the nation's lowest-performing schools using $900 million in grants. To receive the money, states and school districts must agree to one of four reform models, including: replacing the school principal and half of the staff; closing the school and reopening under charter school operation; closing a campus and enrolling students in higher-performing schools; and a transformational model addressing teacher effectiveness, instruction, learning and teacher planning time, and operational flexibility.
Guests:
Jack O’Connell, State Superintendent of Public Education, California Department of Education
Dominic Brewer, Professor of Education at the Rossier School of Education