Why the urgency to turn-around low-performing schools?
All students deserve a quality education, and these schools have been underperforming for several years. DPS wants to address the most immediate needs in our schools, with appropriate intervention, to provide a high-quality education for all of our students. The timing is part of the overall timeframe for DPS school reform, with attention being given first to lowest-performing schools in the district. In addition, the timeframe is set so that families at the affected schools could still participate in the school-choice process once final decisions had been made.
