When Fort Wayne Community Schools unveiled its $500 million building program, a lot of people said, "But what about academics?" Now we have the answer. FWCS has plans to reinvent its six high schools. I'm working on an editorial about it, and I don't know exactly the final shape will be, but it will not be nearly as uncritically supportive as The Journal Gazette's:
Parents should also be prepared to accept changes that will create schools unlike those they attended. That model doesn't work in today's global economy.
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The districtwide approach FWCS is taking distinguishes the redesign from reform efforts around the country. It also makes it harder to grasp exactly what the high schools will look like next fall or in five or 10 years. That's OK
