The State Education recently announced that it would be removing 10-city schools from receivership. WBFO's Eileen Buckley and Buffalo News Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes look at why State Ed believes these schools have made 'enough progress' to be removed.
"How did that happen?", asked Buckley. "Keep in mind the receivership stands alone as an independent state law that was backed by Cuomo, approved last year in the legislature, which basically identify schools which had previously been on state lists for a prolonged period of time," explained Lankes. "So basically what we saw happen a few weeks ago is you had some schools, that had been deemed priority schools, previously under the state accountability system, for not meeting certain state standards."
Normally when schools are placed on priority lists schools, they are given funding and time to make improvement plans. Those schools worked to that goal. "And what we saw happen at those schools is they did," replied Lankes. "When the receivership list was issued last year, a lot of those schools put their hand up and said why are we on this list."
Here are the schools the State Education Department is expected to remove from the receivership list:
- Buffalo Elementary School of Technology
- South Park High School
- Burgard High
- McKinley High School
- Early Childhood Center School 17
- North Park Middle Academy
- Waterfront Elementary School
Lankes and Buffalo News Education Reporter Jay Rey first reported on the schools to be removed in a February 26th article.
