Five Tennessee schools get special oversight
Jayden Hardacre on May 8, 2011 in School Stories
State education officials, starting in the 2011-12 academic year, will co-manage five of Tennessee’s lowest-performing schools to try to turn them around.
The schools – Frayser High, Hamilton High, Northside High and Raleigh Egypt Middle schools in Memphis and Howard School Of Academics Technology in Hamilton County – are part of the state’s new Achievement School District. They’ll be run as their own school system. This is the least stringent way for the state to take over schools.
“The home school district still maintains significant control and oversight,” Kevin Huffman, Tennessee Education Commissioner, said Monday. “Our goal is not to run or manage schools for the sake of running or managing schools. It’s to figure out the places where we could be most helpful and engage in those schools. It puts really positive pressure on the schools to improve.”
Also Monday, Huffman announced the appointment of Chris Barbic as the achievement school district’s superintendent to lead the reform effort. He begins the job Aug. 1.
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