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SOT ANN CHAFIN		(SOT ANN CHAFIN)
'We've taken a tack in our application and our grant that sometimes the most important thing you do in a persistently low-performing school is look at the climate and the culture.'We've added coordinated student services support. we've added health and mental health. we're looking at opportunities for them to do things ourside of schooltimre, and particularly  to try to engage our families, in the education of their kids and the work that has to go on.'	
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'The parents are key...'	
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'it isn't rocket science, it's constancy.' It's picking a way, staying with that way, and making sure you attend to all of the variables.'	
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'There are four models that are open to us through the federal government.	
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'The first model ... is 'turnaround.' that' requires a great deal of redeployment of staff and work on the part of the local education agency -- they must restructure that schools.'	
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'The second one is 'restart' where you started over with an education management organization, or a charter school operator ...'	
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'... to completely redo the school under the contract that they develop with the local.'	
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'You can also close schools, but that's not one we've chosen with our consistenly low-performing schools...'	
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'And then there's another one called 'transformation' -- that requires wholesale work by the district ...	
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'so right now we're focusing on the 'turnaround' and the 'restart' models here.'