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"The Talent Development Secondary program (TD) at Johns Hopkins University is applying for a Validation Grant, in partnership with 14 school districts, City Year (CY), and Communities In Schools (CIS), to validate a whole school reform and student support model specifically designed to turn around Absolute Priority 4 secondary schools with low graduation rates and their feeder middle schools. These are the secondary schools that drive the nation?s dropout crisis. An Investing in Innovation (i3) grant to TD would: 1) Bring our most advanced version of the TD model, known as Diplomas Now (TD-DN), which has been designed to enable the successful turnaround, restart, or transformation of the nation?s lowest performing schools to 60 middle and high schools in 14 districts, serving 57,000 students; and 2) Enable a randomized control trial evaluation study by MDRC to show under what conditions this combination of reforms is powerful enough to enable high schools currently graduating 30-60% of their students to achieve graduation rates of 80% or more and y reduce by two-thirds the number of middle school students sent to high school off-track and behind grade level. TD-DN will provide the management, operations, external evaluation, and sustainability required to serve students effectively. TD-DN has secured the full 20 percent match ($6 million) from the PepsiCo Foundation. The infrastructure and financial wherewithal is in place to scale the TD-DN Turnaround model beyond the schools involved during the grant.


Project Partners: Budget amounts for districts to be determined."

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