COLUMBUS, Ohio – The future course of the Columbus schools could be in the hands of a 15-person committee.
City and school officials created the High Performing Schools Working Group yesterday, charging the blue-ribbon panel with finding the programs that help the most students achieve and putting them in place, district wide.
The group will also determine which charter schools get a share of levy dollars, if voters approve it next month.
The working group, co-chaired by Anthony Gatto, principal of the Arts and College Preparatory Academy; Keisha Jenkins, Mayor Michael Coleman’s external affairs director and Darryl Sanders, the district’s senior executive director of academic services, includes parents, teachers, community groups and business and university officials.
The panel has been charged with expanding or replicating high performing district schools and contracting with charter schools to find high-performing schools to be located in neighborhoods determined to be “in need” and increase the number of students attending them
The committee plans to hold a series of public briefings in and issue its final recommendations by the end of the year.