New California Agency's Goal: Bolster Districts' Turnaround Role

Education Week: Three years ago, California's lawmakers and its department of education embarked on an ambitious task of overhauling the state's accountability and school turnaround approaches.

The state's identification of which schools were failing—a system reliant mostly on test scores—and its remedy for those schools, mostly led by private consultants, had for years been haphazard, poorly aimed, and a waste of resources, state leaders concluded.

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