Texas receiving nearly $338 million to improve low achieving schools

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently announced that Texas will receive nearly $338 million to turn around its persistently lowest achieving schools through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program.

TCTA expressed concerns about the SIG proposal when it was released late last summer because of the undue focus on charter schools and teacher evaluations, based on student growth/achievement (presumably meaning student performance on tests) as key remedies in addressing struggling schools.