Weird article here, where Ms. Snyder seems to be offering the “turnaround” story while simultaneously describing a baseline of trouble that hasn’t really changed.

I guess what bothered me is that a few students doing a few interesting assignments — something that has always been going on at West an every other comprehensive high school — is somehow evidence of a turnaround. Each of these schools has a staff where somewhere between twenty and forty percent of the faculty is doing a good job. Some of them collect media backers who return to their rooms every year or so for a piece; others toil on with minimal recognition.