Turnaround Management Organizations
As a cornerstone of Fast Forward, the Department has embarked on a bold effort to turn around the states
lowest-achieving schools.Indianas leaders have a profound sense of urgency to bring about swift and dramatic
improvements in these schools.Critical to this turnaround strategy are TMOs, external non-profit or for-profit organizations with
which the Department will contract to implement and oversee dramatic improvement strategies in eligible
schools. With support from the Department, TMOs will have authority to contract with carefully selected
school operators or school leaders to carry out dramatic school-level interventions. The objective of this RFI is to receive information from respondents regarding their capacity to
serve as TMOs and assume responsibility for implementing and overseeing turnarounds and
restarts in schools on track for direct state takeover in 2011-12. Through this RFI, the Department is
seeking responses from external non-profit and for-profit organizations interested in taking part in
Indianas Fast Forward plan by serving in the TMO role.
