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Study: Tennessee’s Charter-Heavy “Achievement School District” Schools Do Worse Than District-Run Turnaround Schools

Today’s post in honor of School Choice Week: A Tennessee experiment in improving low-performing schools using a state run, charter-heavy “Achievement School District” (ASD) and a district-run school turnaround model (iZone). Recent research indicates the ASD schools had no overall effect while students in the iZone schools showed measurable improvement. Tennessee received $500 million in […]

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