On Monday, Chancellor Klein revealed more details of the options for school support organizations (SSOs) available to schools under the latest reorganization. See the DoE press release here.
In this chart just now provided to us by DoE staffers, each SSO option is defined along with pricing to be charged each school for the services provided.
There are three types of SSO:
1) Empowerment Support Organization (ESO): schools choosing this option will join other schools in a network and choose how to receive support
2) Learning Support Organization (LSO): four organizations to be led by former regional superintendents
3) Partnership Support Organization (PSO): non-profit groups under contract to provide services
We also have a list of entities that applied to become a PSO. Those that were accepted are noted. Princeton Review, St. John's University and a unit of New York University were not accepted, nor were any for-profit entities who applied. We note that the NYU entity is headed by Pedro Noguera, one of the more outspoken critics of the Bloomberg education policy in the academic community.
Principals will learn more at an April 23rd briefing and have until May 15th to decide which SSO to choose. Parents will be invited to "borough fairs" to learn more. The press release does not specify dates for these events.
UPDATE: Principals' Guide to School Support Organizations has been released by the DoE. Click here.
If Tweed had any principles, they'd stop bothering principals.
ReplyDeleteAnd they'd give them a contract, too, instead of blatantly trying to break their union.