Jocelyn Strand

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  Published on: 9/17/2008    Last Visited: 9/17/2008  

  Jocelyn Strand, director of charter schools for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, said the school had high teacher turnover, fluctuating enrollment and its staff lacked administrative experience.
  
  About 440 students were enrolled at the academy at one point during the 2007-2008 school year.Of those, 118 students were enrolled for the entire school year, and 102 students were enrolled for less than two months.The other 220 students may have left the school at some point and returned later in the year, Strand said.
  
  School officials are talking with the SLPS district about students returning to either traditional district high schools or the district's own alternative program.
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  The charter school's late approval and quick start-up contributed to the problems the school encountered, Strand said.

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  Published on: 7/17/2008    Last Visited: 7/18/2008  

  Jocelyn Strand, the State Education Department's Director of A-Plus and Charter Schools, says Can! - based on a similar experiment in Texas - was in trouble from the start because it didn't receive State Board approval until May and opened in September.She says Can! or something similar could return to St. Louis in the future once a plan of operation is put forward.
  
  Strand says a total of 440 students were involved in the charter school during the just concluded academic year, but there were only 118 by year's end.Strand says representatives of the St. Louis Public School District will meet with the remaining students, next week, to advise the students and the families of educational options.
  
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  Published on: 10/12/2008    Last Visited: 5/22/2008  

  Jocelyn Strand, the State Education Department's Director of A-Plus and Charter Schools, says Can! - based on a similar experiment in Texas - was in trouble from the start because it didn't receive State Board approval until May and opened in September.She says Can! or something similar could return to St. Louis in the future once a plan of operation is put forward.
  
  Strand says a total of 440 students were involved in the charter school during the just concluded academic year, but there were only 118 by year's end.Strand says representatives of the St. Louis Public School District will meet with the remaining students, next week, to advise the students and the families of educational options.
  
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  Published on: 5/27/2008    Last Visited: 5/28/2008  

  Confluence has grown so fast, said Jocelyn Strand, the state's director of charter schools, test data are hard to interpret.

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  Published on: 5/22/2008    Last Visited: 5/24/2008  

  "I think as the sponsoring institution, we're doing the right thing," said Jocelyn Strand, state director of charter schools."They're not meeting our criteria and our expectations."
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  Strand said it's clear now that the school opened here too quickly, that the administrators hired were too inexperienced, and that management gave too little support, especially with students who needed so much help.
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  Today, Strand will recommend the state board suspend Can for a year, and give the organization an opportunity to hire new staff and retool the model.If successful, it could reopen in the fall of 2009.
  
  Still, Strand said, this year is not lost.

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  Published on: 5/22/2008    Last Visited: 5/23/2008  

  Academies of St. Louis, has struggled with huge turnover among teachers and a lack of administrative support, said Jocelyn Strand, state director of charter schools.
  
  While enrollment peaked at 440, Strand said 102 students stayed less than two months.She said the parent company, based in Texas, was unprepared because two-thirds of the students arrived reading at third-grade levels, or worse. >
  
  "That's a lot of catching up to do," she said.
  
  Strand said St. Louis Public Schools officials will meet next week with the school's remaining 118 students to discuss placement options.
  
  The school is located on Goodfellow Boulevard, just south of Interstate 70.
  
  The board suspended the school's operation for one year.Strand will report back to the board in February.
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  "I think as the sponsoring institution, we're doing the right thing," said Jocelyn Strand, state director of charter schools."They're not meeting our criteria and our expectations."
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  Strand said it's clear now that the school opened here too quickly, that the administrators hired were too inexperienced, and that management gave too little support, especially with students who needed so much help.
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  Today, Strand will recommend the state board suspend Can for a year, and give the organization an opportunity to hire new staff and retool the model.If successful, it could reopen in the fall of 2009.
  
  Still, Strand said, this year is not lost.

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  Published on: 11/16/2007    Last Visited: 11/25/2007  

  The state will not pick up many schools, Strand said.
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  "It's impossible to determine exactly what the market will bear," said Jocelyn Strand, director of charter schools for the state education department.Three new St. Louis charter schools didn't get as many students as they expected this year, Strand said."The other issue," she said, "is performance of the St. Louis Public Schools."If they can improve, she said, and lower their dropout rate, parents may keep children in their neighborhood schools.Strand said she couldn't guess at a number of charter schools likely to respond to Slay's request."But there's a lot of interest right now" she said.

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  Published on: 5/15/2006    Last Visited: 12/23/2006  

  "They have no ties whatsoever to the school district anymore," said Jocelyn Strand, director of charter schools for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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  Published on: 5/10/2006    Last Visited: 5/12/2006  

  "They have no ties whatsoever to the school district anymore," said Jocelyn Strand, director of charter schools for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
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  And none of the seven charter schools in St. Louis chose to become local education agencies, Strand said.

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  Published on: 8/28/2004    Last Visited: 8/28/2004  

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