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(St. Stephens, WY) – After five years of hard work, St. Stephens School recently received news their Index of Education Quality (IEQ) has increased from a “low performing school” rating to a “good school” rating. Taking them from the verge of losing accreditation to the future goal of reaching “great school” status. “This has been an incredible 5-year journey for our board, leadership, and staff, including parents that devoted their time to making our Tribally Controlled School a better place to learn for our Indigenous students,” St. Stephens Superintendent Franklin No Run...

The so we could discuss the matter. there are 150 schools in the city, 160 don't have a library. black, brown and poor educational apartheid. the neighborhood schools are outperforming the turnaround schools. you close down the public schools put extra money for a private charter or turnaround school and there are factors operating like something called poverty, where in the schools 90% of the kids are on free lunch program, so this kind of quick fix turnaround is a very expensive problem, it's not working. >> well, it seems to be unfair to the teachers, you can't tell me there are 600 teacher...

Well below their peers and more affluent neighborhoods. >> at orchard gardens the improvements go behind test scores. >> behavior is night and day. literally spent the first week of school teaching them how to walk in and out of my classroom. >> reporter: eric hall thinks his school is doing all right. >> a turnaround school, like headaches every day, but they actually made it fun. >> reporter: reporting for "in america," i'm suzanne malveaux. how can america compete if our kids don't learn the skills they need to excel? cnn's soledad o'brien says her special report "don't fail me, education...

Justin cohen works to improve failing schools. he calls bott's goals ambitious and cautions against declaring early victory. >> what happens is schools that have achieved fragile gains can often slide back into underperformance once either resources are taken away or attention is distracted. >> reporter: he says there's more at stake. >> what i worry about with school turnaround is we -- we hit a plateau or we increase student scores to some extent, but they are still performing well below their peers and more affluent neighborhoods. >> at orchard gardens the improvements go behind test scores...

Projections. official scores from state tests won't be able until the summer. justin cohen works to improve failing schools. he calls the goals ambitious and cautions against declaring early victory. >> what happens is schools that have achieved fragile gains can often slide back into under performance once resources are taken away or attention is distracted. >> reporter: he says there's more at stake. >> what i worry about with school turnaround is we hit a plateau or we increase student scores to some extent but they're still performing well below their peers in more affluent neighborhoods. ...