Inskip Principal Elisa Luna with third grade student Sarah Lawrence. “It’s a good school,” Lawrence says. “It’s gonna take me to good places –- like good colleges, and good places to work.”
In Knoxville, Tennessee, one school climbed from the state’s failing list to a top ten list in three years. The Southern Education Desk reports, as a new principal, Elisa Luna had inherited a violent inner-city school.
Three years ago, a group of the lowest-performing schools in Georgia began receiving millions of dollars in federal money to fund an ambitious attempt to improve dramatically. As those schools enter their final school year receiving that money, the Southern Education Desk reports on one school’s progress.
