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Two points here. First, like any other government entity seeking public input, this will result in a discovery that, shockingly, "We need more money." RI currently ranks 8th highest in per pupil spending on public education in the US. This is an "investment", don't you know. The return on this "investment" is the 17th lowest rate of high school diplomas in the country. We'd do better shorting Apple.

Second, if the Dept. of Ed was interested, even remotely, in improving the lives of young people, they would endorse a policy that grants vouchers to students in low performing schools in order to allow them to flee those schools. That won't happen. Urban public education remains the last vestige of slavery, and education beaurocrats are their slave masters. Instead of granting emancipation, they wish to make the shackles more comfortable. A plantation remains a plantation, "community teams" or not.