Academic recovery plan announced by Governor Ridge A cademic recovery plan announced by Governor Ridge President Liacouras offers Temple's support for the proposal. The plan will provide students in academically distressed school districts with more educational options, and give those school districts new tools to help turn themselves around. Tragically, for whatever reasons, a handful of Pennsylvania schools clearly aren't able to meet that need. Through our new Academic Recovery Act, we will help rescue those schools and those students. The hopes and preparation of our children have been dashed, as they became adults unprepared for the real world of commerce, technology and education.
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Liacouras also offered Temple's help to the Chester Upland School District. He was joined at the press conference by present and former deans of the University's College of Education Dr. Trevor Sewell and Dr. Richard Englert, respectively. But to do all of this effectively requires that adult-centered policies be revised to put students and their learning at the front and center of our lives. Once a district is placed on the list, the local school board would receive new tools and options to reshape itself, including the ability to redesign the district's educational system and sign agreements with for-profit or nonprofit entities to operate and manage schools or to provide educational services. Those services could include supplemental reading or math programs for students, or other non-instructional services to the district.