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The school district plans to hire , a NY., company that promises academic improvement and school leadership development witha money-back The two-year program will cost $1.6 million, with each of the 16 schoolas costing $50,000 each, said Patrick Wallace, a school spokesman. The program will be funded through a state The hiring was part of 15 academic proposales that Superintendent Kelvin Adams presentedd Thursday night at a meeting of the Special Administrative Board, which runs the district. Another plan callzs for hiring more academic coaches to bolster the professional developmentof teachers.
Currently, the schoo district has about 90 of theserinstructional coaches, or aboutt one in every school and two in high Adams proposed increasing that number to 136 coachews so each school could have two. With an averags salary of $75,000 each, the program wouldd cost about $10.2 million, Wallace The school district will firstf post the job listingb internally to give preference to teachers and administratorsd who are losing their jobs when 14 schooles close at the end of thisschool year. The school district is shuttering schools, many of them at half to save money and to respond to the shrinkingstudenr population, which has decreased from 42,000 to 26,500 studentss in the last decade.
Adams also proposesd giving five schools more autonomy in operations and curriculum in exchangefor results. School districtes in Boston and Baltimore have seen schools improve with this he said. Adams also wants to expandc alternative schools for troubled students and have the school districtt partner with churches and synagoguesfor after-schoolo programs and tutoring.
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