BestEssayHelp | State adds 21 more to Department of Education's list of 'failing' schools

Just two days after the city Education Department announced its list of schools to close, the state added 21 schools to its official list of failures.

That means the city now has to develop formal plans to improve 43 city schools that the state has deemed "persistently lowest-achieving" - including the 22 designated last year that the city has yet to officially address.

To win up to $2 million a year for each school from the federal government, the city has to follow strict rules.

For half of the schools, the city can use the "transformation" model - hiring experienced superteachers, lengthening the school day and evaluating staff with tough new criteria.

But the rest must go through more radical change. The city expects to use a "turnaround" model, which includes getting rid of the principals and half the staff.

Ten of the 43 schools already have been slated for closure this year. But to win the money, Education Department spokesman Jack Zarin-Rosenfeld said officials need to use a version of the "turnaround" model instead, which requires support from the teachers union.

"For nine months, we've tried to get these schools the millions in federal funds that they need and deserve," he said.

Teachers union President Michael Mulgrew said he was in talks with the city over the plans. "My frustration is they tend to look to being paper-compliant, and I am adamant we need to see a real educational plan," he said. "There's no sense in doing this as an exercise."

Bronx:

Alfred E Smith Career-Tech High Sch

Banana Kelly High School

Bronx Academy High School

Bronx High School of Business

Herbert H Lehman High School

IS 339

JHS 22 Jordan L Mott

JHS 80 Mosholu Parkway

JHS 142 John Philip Sousa

MS 391

School of Community Research & Learning*

Samuel Gompers Career/Tech Ed Hs

Queens:

I.S. 231

P.S. 30

Beach Channel High School

Jamaica High SchoolWilliam Cullen Bryant High School

Brooklyn:

Bushwick Comm High School

IS 136 Charles O Dewey

John Ericsson Middle School 126

JHS 166 George Gershwin

JHS 296 The Halsey

Pacific High School

Manhattan:

Harlem Renaissance High School

IS 195 Roberto Clemente*

*Already slated for closure.

Source: NY Daily News