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In Chicago, Mr. Duncan worked on eight turnarounds with the Academy for Urban School Leadership, a nonprofit group whose largest project has been remaking troubled Orr Academy High School on Chicago’s West Side. Many of its 1,200 students have been incarcerated or kicked out of other schools, and its in-house day care center minds 35 babies each day while their mothers, some of them students and others teachers, are in class.
An earlier overhaul at Orr that divided it into three small high schools achieved little; Illinois’s 2008 test scores showed that 9 percent of students were proficient in reading and math. So Chicago’s announcement last year that the school would be overhauled again set off protests.
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