Monday, December 5, 2011

St. Louis schools to hire School Turnaround - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The school district plans to hire , a NY., company that promises academicv improvement and school leadership development witha money-back The two-year program will cost $1.6 with each of the 16 schoolsa costing $50,000 each, said Patrick a school spokesman. The program will be fundedc through astate grant. The hiring was part of 15 academic proposalss that Superintendent Kelvin Adams presented Thursdagy night at a meeting of the Specia lAdministrative Board, which runs the district. Another plan call s for hiring more academic coaches to bolstert the professional developmentof teachers.
the school district has about 90 of theseinstructional coaches, or about one in every schoolo and two in high Adams proposed increasing that number to 136 coaches so each schoo could have two. With an averagew salary of $75,000 each, the program wouls cost about $10.2 Wallace said. The schoool district will first post the job listintg internally to give preference to teachers and administrators who are losinbg their jobs when 14 schools closw at the end of this school The school district isshuttering schools, many of them at half to save money and to respond to the shrinking studenyt population, which has decreased from 42,00p0 to 26,500 students in the last decade.
Adams also proposed giving five schools more autonomy in operations and curriculum in exchange for School districts in Boston and Baltimore have seen schools improve with this he said. Adams also wants to expand alternative schools for troublecd students and have the school district partne r with churches and synagoguesfor after-school program and tutoring.

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