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In what's become a yearly ritual, the School District of Philadelphia said Tuesday it will reshuffle six low-performing schools in hopes of turning them around.
In the past, district turnaround schools have replaced more than 50 percent of their staff.
District officials are tackling a smaller number of schools this year and, for the second year in a row, shelving some of their most drastic interventions. Like last year, the district will not convert any of its focus schools into charter schools through the Renaissance Charter Schools Initiative, and it will not close any of the low-performing schools named Tuesday.
All of the schools announced Tuesday meet three main criteria. All have been "low performing" for three consecutive years, according to the district; none is undergoing any sort of school turnaround process; and all have a three-year average of 15 or lower on the district's 100-point performance scale known as SPR.