Improving the turnaround schools model: In its announcement of the final rules for the School Improvement Grants program, the Department of Education has indicated that SIG funds can be used to support a magnet school type model, "to promote college and career readiness as well as more diverse and integrated classrooms." This announcement reflects advocacy by PRRAC and the … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (February 19, 2015): Inching forward