Join the Alliance for Excellent Education for the Latest in Its Series of Webinars
Education News from Washington, DC: Can School Improvement Grants Save the Nation's Lowest-Performing High Schools?
Thursday, July 1, 2010
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
Ann Whalen, special assistant to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, will be joining Gov. Wise during the webinar to answer questions from participants on the School Improvement Grants program.
Nationwide, approximately 12 percent of high schools account for more than half of the nation's nearly 1.3 million dropouts. In these schools, less than 60 percent of freshmen will graduate with their peers in four years.
The School Improvement Grants (SIG) program, which was authorized under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), is the federal government’s primary mechanism for turning around the lowest-performing schools. In its blueprint to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as NCLB, the Obama administration intends to target SIG grants to the lowest-performing 5,000 schools, including the 2,000 high schools with graduation rates below 60 percent.
The blueprint would require schools receiving SIG funds to implement one of four turnaround models to support better outcomes for students: (1) transformation, (2) turn around, (3) restart, or (4) school closure. Unfortunately, many of the nation's lowest-performing high schools are unlikely to receive SIG grants after funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, i.e. the stimulus bill, runs out.
Do you have questions about School Improvement Grants? Wondering what other concerns individuals, including educators and federal policymakers, have raised about the four school turnaround models? Want to know whether the Congress will consider alternative approaches to school turnaround as it works to reform NCLB? Wondering what a more effective system of high school reform would look like?
For answers to these questions and more, join Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, and Ann Whalen, special assistant to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, for the latest of the Alliance’s interactive webinars on what’s happening in Washington, DC on education reform.
The webinar will include a short presentation by Gov. Wise, followed by a question and answer session in which Bob and Ann will answer the questions that you submit.
To register for the event or submit questions to be answered during the question and answer portion, visit
The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington, DC-based national policy and advocacy organization that works to improve national and federal policy so that all students can achieve at high academic levels and graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship in the twenty-first century.
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