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Guest Post: New ‘Innovation School’ in Massachusetts provides early pathways into college

Posted October 29, 2010

Pathways Early College Innovation High School is one of the two Innovation Schools that opened this year under a new Massachusetts law allowing for the creation of district schools with exemption from many rules and regulations. The school partners with Gateway to College to provide early-enrollment college options for motivated students that seek to expand their limits.

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Innovation in Districts

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Administration and Management, Change Strategy, Innovation, massachusetts, State Policy

Guest Post: First 'Innovation School' opens in Massachusetts—like a charter, but inside the district

Posted October 15, 2010

The Paul Revere Innovation School is the first of two new schools to open this year under a 2009 Massachusetts law that allows districts statewide to create schools with autonomy reflective of the chartering sector. Superintendent Paul Dakin describes the ways that the district, administration, and teachers cooperated to design the school and the importance autonomy played in its character—including extended learning time and alternative assessments.

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Innovation in Districts

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Change Strategy, Guest Posts, Innovation, massachusetts

Guest Post: Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville describes charter-like district ‘Innovation Schools’

Posted September 17, 2010

In a guest post for Education Innovating, Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville describes the motivation behind that state’s recently-enacted Innovation Schools law, enabling districts to create schools with autonomy reflective of chartering. This significant systemic reform is similar to Boston's Pilot Schools, as well as Minnesota’s Site-Governed Schools law passed in 2009. Already in 2010 two new schools were created under the law.

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Innovation in Districts

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Autonomy, boston, Change Strategy, Guest Posts, Innovation, massachusetts, State Policy