About This Event
Large numbers of schools across the country are low performing and have been for years. This longstanding, widespread problem reveals that districts and states, as well as schools, wrestle with how to turn around struggling schools. Federal policy can play a key role in rectifying the systemic failures that allow schools to flounder. The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is a ripe opportunity to revise the law’s main program that supports school turnaround, the School Improvement Grant fund.
Join us as we release two new publications on school turnaround. One explores how four states have responded to the federal turnaround program. The second explores how pioneering districts have called on charter schools to turn around chronically low-performing high schools.
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) will provide opening remarks on the importance of school turnaround. A panel discussion will follow, drawing lessons from state and district turnaround efforts to inform the reauthorization of ESEA.
Introduction:
Cynthia Brown, Vice President for Education Policy
Distinguished speaker:
Sen. Mary Landrieu, (D-LA)
Presenters:
Diane Castelbuono, Associate Superintendent for Strategic Programs, School District of Philadelphia
Jessica Quillin, Managing Director, Quillin Consulting, LLC
Featured panelists:
Jesse Dixon, Office of District and School Turnaround, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Rayne Martin, Director, Office of Innovation, Louisiana Department of Education
Moderator:
Jeremy Ayers, Senior Education Policy Analyst, Center for American Progress Action Fund
Breakfast will be served beginning at 8:30 a.m.
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Location
Center for American Progress
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Map & Directions 
Nearest Metro: Blue/Orange Line to McPherson Square or Red Line to Metro Center
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