Innovation Zone

New Bedford is unlikely to move forward with Innovation Zone plans for the city's middle schools. At Monday's School Committee meeting, officials announced the district would pursue a different middle school redesign as they try to improve grades...

With New Bedford Middle Schools still seeing little progress, school officials will consider making big changes. At Monday's School Committee meeting, John D'Auria, a member of a non-profit professional development group called Teachers21, presented his findings on New Bedford's potential benefit to adopting Innovation Zones in middle schools...

Officials are looking to get creative in solving the achievement gap at New Bedford middle schools. At Monday's meeting, the New Bedford School Committee discussed the possibility of introducing an Innovation Zone for middle schools. While still a concept, the Zone would give middle school teachers and principals 'greater school-level freedom' and autonomy, while also making them more accountable