“ Under the proposal, the district would turn over Harvard — one of the lowest-performing schools in the district — to the Academy of Urban School Leadership. The group would close the school at the end of the year, fill it with a highly-qualified principal and teachers, and reopen it in the fall. If approved, Harvard would become the second school in the district — and one of a few in the nation — to experience such a dramatic overhaul. The proposal, a bit of an experiment for the nation’s third-largest school district, is part of a growing national initiative to fix low-performing schools that have been impervious to other reforms.
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