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Marsha L. Carr Assistant Professor - Educational Leadership University of North Carolina Wilmington


Marsha Carr serves on the faculty of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Carr previously served as a superintendent of schools in West Virginia for the past decade. Other prior roles during her 35 years of experience in education include a Pre-K - 12 principal, director of curriculum/instructional technology, and a reading specialist. Marsha can be reached at carrm@uncw.edu.


Public Education Accountability: Sustaining Success Aſter A State Takeover


Summary


Educational reform has been under the guise of different approaches. During the last decade, one initiative of this accountability movement has been state takeovers. Despite attempts by state departments and governments to takeover failing school districts, the success has been short lived and not been sustainable in the absence of the takeover. In light of this, efforts to either abandon takeovers as a strategy or create long term sustained results need to occur. A small school district in Logan County, West Virginia is one of only three school districts to have sustained success nationwide in 2004 and continues the sustain success. This school district was studied for identifiable characteristics of a successful sustained takeover and the findings yielded opportunity for the development of a takeover model.


Introduction Nationwide, there have been numerous attempts at educational reform initiated by political party agendas or presidential candidates as a business card of campaign promises. During the second national wave of accountability, each state became responsible for implementing an accountability system to establish performance standards as well as assessments under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Attendance rates, dropout rates,


78 Virginia Educational Leadership Vol. 8 No. 1 Spring 2011


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