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More Rigorous Interventions (CSI)

What Ohio proposes to do to a Comprehensive Support and Improvement school that has not met the exit criteria within three years. Sixteen items, and the last one is closing it.

intervention/more-rigorous-interventions · 2 nodes point here

Modeled as one node rather than sixteen, deliberately. The rungs share a trigger, an authority, a unit and an actor; they differ only in what they do, and the state requires “one or more” from the menu rather than applying them in sequence. Sixteen nodes would repeat four identical fields to vary a sentence — the same duplication objected to when accountability status was considered as a class instead of a role.

The ladder is new. Ohio’s approved plan carried a stub here; the April 2026 amendment supplies the entire menu, along with a section that changed from “Not applicable” to a district-level regime — see LEA-level action. verified as a statement of what the amendment proposes Approval by the U.S. Department of Education is not established. open

Three of the sixteen end the school as a district building: conversion to a charter school replicating a high-performing school operated by a Department-approved school management organization; merger with a school operated by one; and closure. A fourth contracts out its operation. These are transfers into the community-school sector, and the corpus can name the pathway and cannot follow the money along it, because the deduction calculator is a stub. inference

And one is fiscal in the ordinary sense. Item 10 is annual Department approval of expenditure of all federal funds, “including but not limited to Title IA, IDEA, Noncompetitive School Improvement Funds (1003)” — a state gate on federal money, conditioned on academic performance. It is recorded on both Title I and IDEA Part B. verified

How many schools this could reach is now known. 231 buildings are currently CSI, and 127 of them were identified more than three years ago — 100 in 2018 and 27 in 2022, holding 50,086 pupils between them. That is the population the trigger above already describes, and it is more than half the tier. verified crates/dispersion Whether any has been subjected to a rung of this ladder is still not published in anything the corpus holds. open

What this repository computed Contents

Not what Ohio publishes. Figures derived here from committed fixtures, each one citing the test that reproduces it.

Two thirds of the reachable population is already outside a school district Contents

The three rungs that end a school as a district building are described above as transfers into the community-school sector. Most of the schools they could reach are there already. Of the 127 CSI schools past the three-year mark, 82 operate as their own local education agency — their building IRN and their LEA IRN are the same number — and they hold 30,085 of the 50,086 pupils. verified crates/dispersion

Every one of the 64 dropout recovery schools in that population is its own agency, as are 18 of the 20 community schools; the 43 traditional district buildings are the only ones a conversion or merger rung could move anywhere. For the other 82, rungs 14 and 15 have no district to move a building out of, and the menu reduces to closure. inference

That is not a defect in the amendment — a state plan is written for every school it identifies, and the sector mix of the identified population is not something a plan chooses. It is a caution for this corpus: reading the ladder as a district-sector event mistakes the minority case for the rule, and the deduction stub the description points at is the wrong instrument for two thirds of it. inference

Properties Contents

NameMore rigorous interventions
AuthorityOhio's Consolidated State Plan under ESSA, section A.4.vii.c, as it stands to be amended in April 2026. Federal basis at ESEA section 1111(d)(3)(A)(i)(I). verified
TriggerIdentification as a CSI school, and failure to meet the state's exit criteria within three years. verified The exit criteria themselves require two consecutive years of improvement above the cut score that led to identification.
Attaches toschool
Powers
One or more of sixteen, at the state's requirement. In the amendment's order:
  1   revise the improvement plan to Level 1 evidence strategies only
  2   require improvement goals focused on literacy and mathematics
  3   require partnership with a State Support Team or approved vendor
  4   Department-approved instructional materials and professional development
  5   Department-approved screening assessments
  6   comprehensive academic review by the Department or an approved vendor
  7   instructional coaches with Department-approved training and tools
  8   enhanced monitoring, which may include monthly meetings
  9   comprehensive school redesign by an approved evidence-based provider
  10  annual Department approval of expenditure of all federal funds
  11  reopening under new leadership with authority to replace staff
  12  assignment of a case manager
  13  conversion to a charter school under an approved management organization
  14  merger with a higher-performing school under such an organization
  15  contracting out operation of all or part of the school
  16  closure
verified Items 11 and 13 through 16 change who operates the building; item 10 changes who approves its spending; the remainder are instructional.
ExitNot stated for the interventions themselves. The underlying CSI exit criteria require two consecutive years of performance above the lowest 5% and above the school's own identification cut score. verified
Effect on moneyItem 10 gates federal money: annual Department approval of expenditure of all federal funds, Title IA and IDEA named. verified

Items 13 through 16 are structural rather than budgetary and are the larger fiscal event — a building converted to a charter, merged under a management organization, contracted out or closed moves its students, and therefore its funding, out of the district sector. The corpus cannot quantify that. open