Winter Hill Community School Could be Innovation School by Fall

The Somerville School Committee has been , and now, Somerville Schools Superintendent Anthony Pierantozzi has said the could become an "innovation school" as early as this fall, according to the Boston Globe.

The Globe reports that Pierantozzi expects an innovation school to open in Somerville in September, 2012, and that teachers at the Winter Hill school are discussing plans "to convert to the innovation model."

School administrators, along with members of the Somerville School Committee and certain parents groups have explored the idea of an innovation school in large part as a reaction to .

Innovation schools, introduced by Gov. Deval Patrick's administration in 2010, are somewhat like charter schools in that they give more control to principals and teachers and encourage a greater degree of experimental learning. However, unlike with charter schools, funding for innovation schools is controlled by the school district.

The state education board is about the Somerville Progressive Charter School at the end of this month.

Read the Boston Globe article here.

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