DPI could offer course for struggling schools

Schools struggling to meet the grade will find new help from North Dakota’s Department of Public Instruction.

Lawmakers this past session granted DPI the ability to enter into a three year improvement plan with local districts identified as “chronically under-performing.”

State Superintendent Kirsten Baesler says the law requires a memorandum of understanding between DPI and the school.

Baesler says the state already had the authority to go into a school and change curriculum, change the professional development training for teachers, change instruction strategies – and even change the school calendar. She says under the new law, the Superintendent can actually change school staff.

Baesler says another  part of the new law is that a chronically under-performing school or school district must complete DPI’s “school board leadership” program.

Baesler says the new law requires a “memorandum of understanding” between DPI and the underperforming school.

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