The federal turnaround grant that the Columbus school district has won will have the obligation to pay for the outside group to run long-struggling South High School. The school district has already released a request. The request’s proposal will be able to find a management organization in the area of education and the request also stated to set aside $600,000 of its three-year and the $1.35 million South district grant to pay the group.
The school will be taking over by the outside manager. According to the experts, this is the only that that a typical publics school district in Ohio has decided to to outsource their daily school’s operations. The $5.3 million is the South grant that they will be geceiving from the School Improvement Grant program. The rest of the money will be used to improve the Fairwood, Heyl and Lincoln Park elementary schools. The reason why the South was able to receive a grant is because almost half of its students got a diploma and according to the records, 47.5 percent was the average over five years.
The school district believes that they have improved since the last examination. That said improvement has brought a new staffs and programs. Superintendent Gene Harris stated that the principal and the other employees, 65 of them to be specific are ordered to stay in the area as the improvement is going on. He also said that the outside group will be taking over of training of the workforce and they are ask to work with parents and community members in order to improve the school.
When Superintendent Gene Harris has said this, the reaction of the staff is okay and they are hoping that those workforce will take that move as their additional support for the district. Mike Wiles, School-board member said that he was confident that the group that they assigned outside can tackle the low graduation rate and they can also handle the explanation such as there are non-academic issues regarding poverty which could make their task more difficult. Outsourcing can make a certain industry to save more money and it can help them to lessen its costs.
