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"This project will take an innovative model of education reform developed in New Orleans and spread it to other
urban school districts struggling to turn around failing schools. The heart of this model lies in building the
permanent infrastructure and capacity to replace persistently low-performing schools with charter restarts
executed by high-performing charter organizations. With the support of a five-year i3 Validation Grant, the
project partners will be able to expand capacity in New Orleans to turn around the bottom 5% of failing
schools each year, and then replicate this model in Memphis and Nashville ? creating the foundation for
longer-term scale-up to other districts serving high-need students across the nation. To make this aspiration a
reality, New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO) has partnered with Louisiana?s Recovery School District
(RSD) and Tennessee?s Achievement School District (ASD). The primary grant activity will be sub-granting
funds to high-performing charter operators to execute school turnarounds through the charter restart model.
Only those operators with a robust, quasi-experimental data-backed performance will be funded to replicate.
To augment supply of high quality charter operators, NSNO and ASD will incubate new CMOs, and to ensure
this quality standard is being upheld, RSD and ASD will provide the crucial turnaround infrastructure. This
enhanced infrastructure, combined with expanded charter operator capacity, will ensure that strong
turnarounds are the consistent course of action when a school is persistently low performing."

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