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District 11 plans external management partner to pull Mitchell High School off state watch list
Summary
Superintendent Gall and Mitchell leaders presented a plan to the Colorado State Board of Education to keep Mitchell High School open under its current innovation status while adding an external academic management partner to strengthen classroom rigor and instruction.
Superintendent Gall told the Colorado Springs School District 11 board on April 16 that the district will ask the State Board of Education to allow Mitchell High School to remain an innovation school while bringing in an external academic management partner to drive instructional improvement.
The move, Gall said, is intended to avoid closing Mitchell or immediately converting it to a charter or other governance model. “I do not think it is healthy for our community to recommend the closure of Mitchell High School,” Gall said during the presentation. He and district staff said the district will seek approval from the state board at its May hearing and expects a formal order within weeks if the state concurs.
The nut graf: Mitchell is on the state clock after multiple years of priority-improvement ratings. District leaders argued the school has stabilized in safety and some academics…
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