AFT Task Force on Redesigning Low-Performing Schools, February 1997, 1997

Agenda for February 7, 1997, meeting; draft (not for publication or attribution) criteria for identifying low-performing schools; excerpts of responses to survey of states and districts re criteria for identifying and remediating low-performing schools; memo re reconstitution, January 6, 1997; overview of legal protections for teacher employment; related memo; K-12 Teachers Program & Policy Council Meeting agenda; discussion questions, the role of the union in redesigning low-performing schools; report by U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics, "Urban Schools: The Challenge of Location and Poverty"; related reports and articles