IDOE Selects Partner for Turnaround Leadership Academy

Classes begin at Marian University this September

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Original air date: 07/14/2010

Duration: 14 minutes

Program Description:

The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) announced today that Marian University will be awarded $500,000 to establish a Turnaround Leadership Academy to identify, recruit, train, and develop transformational leaders who will focus on the challenge of turning around Indiana's chronically lowest-achieving schools. Marian University will build the leadership pipeline and develop an ongoing source of outstanding principals for struggling schools. The university was selected through a competitive request for proposals (RFP) process. Read more...

Contacts:

Media: Kim Preston
Communications Director
(317) 232-6615

Technical: Don Gilroy
Director, Office of Digital Media
Indiana Department of Education
dgilroy@doe.in.gov