DETROIT -- Detroit Public Schools are hoping to reinvent themselves.

Emergency financial manager Robert Bobb has named four educational partners with proven track records of raising student achievement to oversee the transformation of the failing school district.

“These schools have been failing our students for too many years,” Bobb said. “We refuse to wait any longer,” he said at Central High School, one of the schools slated for redesign because it has not met federal achievement goals for six years. “Detroit Public Schools students deserve to have every option available to ensure their success. Today the academic hemorrhaging stops.”

The four education partners will be New York-based Edison Learning, Cincinnati-based EdWorks, New York-based Institute for Student Achievement, and Bellevue, Wash.-based Model Secondary Schools Project.

Learn more about the educational partners here.

Each of the organizations will have a performance-based, multiyear contract that will be monitored to ensure success.

Bobb said the schools that will be redesigned are those that did not meet the Adequate Yearly Progress or federal goals.

The schools to be redesigned are: Central, Crockett, Henry Ford, King, Western, Cooley, Denby, Finney, Kettering, Mumford, Southeastern, Pershing, Detroit Tech, Southwestern, Cody, Northwestern, Osborn.

“The redesign of our high schools with the purpose to dramatically improve teaching and learning for our students is core to the transformation of the district and takes us closer to ‘Building Centers of Excellence, in Every School, For Every Child, In Every Neighborhood,’” said Chief academic and accountability auditor Dr. Barbara Byrd-Bennett. “This model is designed to dramatically improve these historically failing schools.”

The main goal is to have the educational partners work with teachers and principals to strengthen the curriculum.

The contracts with the educational partners will be paid for with $20 million in federal stimulus funds.

Bobb pointed out that the dramatic reform of the city's high schools is part of an historic change in the district.

"This is a radical transformation for high schools. Forty of our low performing schools are being redesigned. Never has it happened before in DPS in its history," Bobb said.