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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 29, 2010
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JP O'Hare

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State Education Department Awards $9.9 Million Federal School Improvement Grant To Rochester City Schools

New York State Commissioner of Education David Steiner today announced that the Rochester City School District will receive $9.9 million for the 2010-2011 school year to help turn around its Persistently Lowest Achieving schools through the federal School Improvement Grants (SIG) program. These funds are part of over $308 million that was made available to New York State this spring through the United States Department of Education鈥檚 (USED) School Improvement Grant Fund under Section 1003(g) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), from money set aside in the 2009 budget and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Board of Regents Vice Chancellor Milton L. Cofield said, "We are entering a new era of reform in which we will build upon New York鈥檚 current initiatives to intervene in low performing schools and improve student outcomes.听听 New federal funding allows us to work with districts to go beyond incremental improvements to create truly excellent models of education for students, particularly in those schools where students need our help the most.鈥澨

Regent Wade S. Norwood said, 鈥淲e applaud Rochester Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard and his team for developing an excellent plan that incorporates proven strategies to turnaround schools.听 The State Education Department will actively support the district鈥檚 transformation process.鈥

In February, the Education Department identified 57 persistently lowest-achieving schools, in seven school districts across the state.听 In June, these districts were invited to apply for School Improvement Grants under Section 1003(g), in order to support implementation of one of four intervention models prescribed by the USDE. To receive funding for the 2010-2011 school year, districts with identified schools must implement one of the following prescribed intervention models:听听

  • RESTART MODEL:听Convert a school or close it and re-open it as a charter school or under an education management organization.
  • TURNAROUND MODEL:听Replace the principal, screen existing school staff, and rehire no more than half the teachers; adopt a new governance structure; and improve the school through curriculum reform, professional development, extending learning time, and other strategies.听
  • TRANSFORMATION MODEL:听Replace the principal and improve the school through comprehensive curriculum reform, professional development, extending learning time and, by the end of the 2010-11 school year, amend any existing collective bargaining agreement as necessary to require that teachers (or building principals where applicable) assigned to these schools be evaluated in the 2011-12 school year and thereafter in accordance with recently enacted legislation pertaining to principal and teacher evaluation.
  • SCHOOL CLOSURE:听Close the school and send the students to higher-achieving schools in the district.

The Rochester School District has received funding in the following amounts to implement a model in these schools:

School Name Grant Award for
2010-2011
Model
East High School

$1,952,495 million

Transformation

Franklin BioScience Health and Careers High School/Franklin International Finance and Economic Development High School

$1,221,136 million

Turnaround: Schools will be replaced by Vanguard Collegiate High School
Franklin Global Media Arts $1,377,613 million Turnaround: School will be replaced by Integrated Arts and Technology High School

Applied Technology High School at the Edison Campus

$1,786,854 million

Turnaround: Schools will be replaced by Robert Brown High School of Construction & Design

School of Business, Finance, and Entrepreneurship at the Edison Campus

School of Engineering and Manufacturing at the Edison Campus

$1,855,794 million

Turnaround: Schools will be replaced by Rochester STEM High School

School of Imaging and Information Technology at the Edison Campus

Based on satisfactory implementation of the approved plans for these schools, the Rochester School District is eligible to receive two additional years of School Improvement Grant funding for model implementation in these schools.

The $9,937,859 made available to the Rochester City School District was awarded based on a comprehensive review of their School Improvement Grant application, which included implementation plans for each school identified as persistently lowest-achieving, and required districts to demonstrate evidence that they had the capacity to support implementation of the models in these schools.听 Rochester鈥檚 application can be found here:.听