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Empowerment Zone schools slated to reintegrate as designations change; MOU and staged transition recommended
Summary
Attorney briefing and committee discussion clarified that Springfield Empowerment Zone (ZEP) schools that are no longer designated underperforming will transition back into the district under the 2014 MOU; the committee emphasized a structured, not rushed, transition and recommended an ad-hoc committee.
Springfield officials discussed the statutory and contractual process for returning Empowerment Zone (ZEP) schools to regular district management after DESE removed the underperforming designation for several schools.
Attorney Saint Laurent told the committee the transition was anticipated in the original 2014 memorandum of understanding (MOU) and in state regulations (citing 603 CMR 2.05). He…
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