Logan Square Neighborhood Association among two dozen community organizations opposing Duncan’s turnaround strategy.

The Logan Square Neighborhood Association is a long-time community organization based in the northwest side of Chicago. Logan Square is also where I have lived for the past 35 years.

Yesterday LSNA joined with two dozen other statewide and national community organizations calling themselves Communities for Excellent Public Schools. They issued a report which blasted the Administration’s school turnaround strategy.

In a section of the report called “Top down turnaround – Defying the research,” the organizations say:

Many education experts and advocates have expressed concern over the narrow range of options for school turnaround. Others have decried the lack of mandated public involvement in determining and implementing the interventions. Communities for Excellent Public Schools concurs. Although we wholeheartedly agree with the need for dramatic and meaningful improvements, we believe there are several reasons why the Administration’s limited top-down mandates are both bad policy and bad educational strategy.

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