Turnaround School District
The district is identified as a "turnaround district" due to chronic, low student academic achievement. The district is eligible to various supplemental funding like School Improvement Grants. Two of the district's nine schools achieved AYP in reading and math. In 2011, Chester Upland School district is in "Corrective Action II 9th Year" due to chronic low student achievement for 12 years. It is one of three school districts in Pennsylvania that are at this low level. Since 1994, the Pennsylvania Department of Education has engaged in escalating levels of intervention including: providing a wide variety of specialists for interventions, providing tens of millions in extra funding such as the Spring 2011 budget bailout of $20 million, and the mandated repeated change in governance.
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