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Tennessee’s exit criteria for a subset of its very lowest-performing schools are rigorous.
Tennessee will not exit a school from this subset of schools if it has entered one of the more extensive interventions until the school has completed the full length of the intervention.
However, Tennessee’s exit requirements for targeted support and improvement schools are not particularly rigorous.
A school can exit this status if it is not identified on the list the following year for the subgroup for which it was identified for improvement, which could potentially allow schools to bounce in and out of identification without making any real improvement.
