Grading Hope High
What does the future hold for Providence's troubled Hope High School? More experiments at the local level? A state takeover? Teachers, students, parents and administrators speak out on the subject.
3.9.2005
3
new principals to help lead ailing Hope High
PROVIDENCE -- Hope High School will get three new principals
-- Catherine Carbone, Wayne Montague and Arthur Petrosinelli -- who will operate
as a team running the three small learning communities in the building, the
new appointees said yesterday.
3.7.2005
More
changes come to Hope this week
PROVIDENCE -- State intervention at Hope High will advance
three steps this week as the commissioner of education names a special master,
new administrators are appointed, and teachers decide whether to go or stay
next fall.
2.27.2005
Providence
school officials look ahead to next chapter
PROVIDENCE -- Teachers are getting more training. Students
are taking the same classes no matter which school they attend. Elementary school
test scores are rising.
2.19.2005
Hope
teachers win more time to decide
PROVIDENCE -- About a week ago, officials of the Providence
Teachers Union told Education Commissioner Peter McWalters that he would lose
a substantial number of the teachers he would want to keep at Hope High School
unless he changed the 19-point letter of commitment they were required to sign
as part of his recent intervention order.
2.5.2005
McWalters
lays out sweeping Hope plan
PROVIDENCE -- Education Commissioner Peter McWalters yesterday
issued a highly detailed order that tells the Providence School Department how
to run Hope High School, but he stopped short of taking over day-to-day operations.
2.4.2005
State
stops short of taking over Hope High School
PROVIDENCE -- The Commissioner of Education today signed
a highly detailed and prescriptive order for change at Hope High School that
puts the welfare of students at the center of decision-making and uses a special
master as the Commissioner's own eyes and ears to monitor progress on a daily
basis.
2.2.2005
Regents
give McWalters OK to proceed at Hope High
PROVIDENCE -- After two hours of private discussion, the
state Board of Regents last night authorized Education Commissioner Peter McWalters
to proceed with his order on Hope High School, which is to be released Friday.
1.30.2005
State
plan for Hope criticized in schools
PROVIDENCE -- Schools Supt. Melody A. Johnson says she would
like adequate resources to improve the city's schools, but she doesn't count
a special master at Hope High School as one of them.
1.28.2005
Hope
High getting a special master
PROVIDENCE -- The commissioner of education plans to appoint
an independent master to monitor implementation of his not-yet-released order
on Hope High School.
1.27.2005
Big
decision on way for Hope High
PROVIDENCE -- Peter McWalters, the state commissioner of
education, is expected to announce early next week what he will do with the
beleaguered Hope High School -- a decision that will break new ground in public
education in Rhode Island.
1.26.2005
Students
chime in on plan for Hope
PROVIDENCE -- Student leaders from Hope High School have
developed a broad criteria that teachers should meet to stay at their school
next fall -- including a good grasp of their subject matter, the ability to
present it in different ways and a desire to get to know their students.
12.17.2004
McWalters weighs Hope's strengths, weaknesses
PROVIDENCE -- If the commissioner of education gave any hint yesterday how he will rule on the future of Hope High School, it was that he will not throw out the proverbial baby with the bath water.
12.16.2004
Coalition suggests closing Hope
PROVIDENCE -- A coalition of community leaders who are dismayed with the performance of Hope High School say the school should be shut down.
12.12.2004
Students say Hope is 'turned upside down'
Melcris Francisco glanced at the clock on the hearing room wall and jotted down the time in her black spiral notebook.
12.10.2004
Testimony details challenges at Hope High School
PROVIDENCE -- Four perspectives from inside Hope High School emerged yesterday, combining reports of both incremental progress and major obstacles to systemic change, in continuing testimony at the hearing the state commissioner of education will use to determine whether Hope will be the target of a state takeover.
12.9.2004
Hope High School plan under scrutiny
PROVIDENCE -- No sooner had Providence school officials finished presenting ways they intend to fix Hope High School than the top lawyer for the state Department of Education put them on notice that the plan does not pass muster on at least one important point -- the daily schedule.
12.8.2004
State opens hearing on takeover of Hope High
PROVIDENCE -- An unprecedented hearing that could result in a state takeover of Hope High School opened yesterday with a 90-minute recitation of years of efforts to improve the school that have failed to satisfy the state commissioner of education.
12.5.2004
Hearings will decide state's role at Hope High
PROVIDENCE -- On Tuesday, the state commissioner of education will convene a high-stakes hearing on Hope High School, setting the stage for a test of his ability to bring about change at failing public schools in Rhode Island.
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