Schools are placed under the supervision of the State School Reform/Redesign Office as a result of placement on the Persistently Lowest Achieving List. The goals of the Reform/Redesign Office are:

• Significant gains in student achievement within two years
  
• Improvement three times greater than the state average
  
• Transformation into a high-performing organization
  
• Clear reporting of progress
  
• Focus
  
• Return to stability
  
• No longer a persistently lowest achieving school
  
• Feedback to parents, students, community

The State School Reform/Redesign Officer (Officer) is appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and serves as the Executive Director of the State Reform/Redesign Office in the Michigan Department of Education.

State Reform/Redesign Officer

Deborah Clemmons
517.335.5310
clemmonsd@michigan.gov

The School Reform/Redesign Office works under the direction of the Officer to achieve the following:

• Identification of Persistently Lowest Achieving (PLA) schools
  
• Notification of school boards/public school academy authorizers with PLAs
  
• Review of redesign plans
  
• Notification to school boards/PSA authorizers of Plan Approval/Disapproval
  
• Monitoring of redesign plans
  
• Establishment of the Reform/Redesign District comprised of schools whose plans were disapproved, and those schools not making significant growth toward student achievement.