Despite the School District‘s dire financial straits, it placed a bet on three STEM-focused schools by pledging to invest more than $28 million in their expansions over the next five years.
Education Week has a story, focused on one of the STEM schools, Science Leadership Academy, that teases out the intricacies of the issue: why Superintendent William Hite and other supporters believe schools like Science Leadership Academy should be the future of the School District and why others believe it simply isn’t possible.
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