It feels like Pueblo City Schools (D60) – in an effort to save several of its troubled schools – is throwing ideas against the wall to see what sticks.

And in fairness, it’s the state that is making the district do that.

At a school board meeting Tuesday, it was announced that the state is recommending innovation status and external management for both Heroes K-8 Academy and Risley International Academy of Innovation (already an innovation school) and for Bessemer Academy, external management.

Those three schools are in the sixth and final year of either priority improvement or turnaround status. That’s educationalese, which means the schools must improve or the state could recommend school closure or conversion to a charter school.

Read more at The Pueblo Chieftain.