Strategic Support Teams

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    Raising the Achievement of English Learners in Providence Public Schools
     
    This report examines such areas as the district’s vision and goals for ELLs, the number and variety of languages spoken by Providence’s children, achievement levels and English-proficiency rates, graduation rates, identification, registration, and placement processes, ELL access to district curriculum and the quality of that curriculum, program design, teacher assignments, monitoring, parent engagement, professional development, ELLs in special education, data systems, and the like.
    192 pages
    September 2019
     
     
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    Review of the Business Operations of the Clark County School District
     
    Clark County School District requested that the Council of the Great City Schools conduct a high-level management review of the school district’s business operations.
    102 pages
    January 2019
     
     
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    Review of the Student Transportation Programof the Seattle Public Schools
     
    Stephen Nielsen, Deputy Superintendent of the Seattle Public Schools (SPS), requested that the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) provide a high-level management review of the school district’s student transportation program.
    73 pages
    January 2019
     
     
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    Review of the Finance and Business Operations of the Richmond Public Schools
     
    Richmond Public Schools requested that the Council of the Great City Schools provide a high-level management review of the school district’s financial operations.
    61 pages
    June 2018
     
     
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    Review of the Instructional Program of the Jackson Public Schools
     
    The Board of Education and Interim Superintendent of the Jackson Public Schools asked the Council of the Great City Schools to provide a high-level review of the school district’s instructional program.
    134 pages
    April 2018
     
     
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    An Organizational Review of the Jefferson County Public Schools
     
    Jefferson County Public Schools requested that the Council provide a high-level review and evaluation of the school district’s organizational structure.
    56 pages
    March 2018
     
     
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    Improving Special Education Services in the Detroit Public Schools Community District
     
    The Council was asked to review DPSCD’s services for students with disabilities and provide recommendations to support the teaching and learning of these students.
    181 pages
    Summer 2018
     
     
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    Puerto Rico School Facilities Assessment
     
    Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, resulted in schools suffering severe storm damage and flooding.The Council was asked to review review and conduct a physical assessment of a subset of schools on the island to determine which, if any, could be reopened in relatively short order. The Council assembled a Strategic Support Team of senior facilities directors, business and school operations officers, and chief operating officers from its member districts.
    235 pages
    November 2017