Bennett Meets with School Corporations on Probation

Bennett Meets with School Corporations on Probation

State school superintendent of public instruction Tony Bennett is meeting with leaders of the 10 Indiana school corporations placed on academic probation. The schools were placed on probation the past four years because of failures to show improvements on the state‘s standardized ISTEP test. Schools that remain on probation for six straight years are subject to state intervention, including the possible assignment of a management team to operate all or part of a school. 

The state hired a consulting firm last year to evaluate the schools and develop a list of recommendations to improve them. All the schools received the same checklist of 28 recommendations. Schools have been receptive to the suggestions so far. Meetings will continue through March 19. School corporations in this situation have until May 2011 to forge a plan to turn things around.