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SB campus shows difficulty of fixing failing schools
- 04-06-2010
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By Debbie Pfeiffer Trunnell/San Bernardino Sun
Few were surprised when Davidson Elementary School landed on a list of the state's worst five percent of public campuses last month. Since being named a California Distinguished School in the late 1990s, Davidson's test scores have been among the poorest in the San Bernardino city school system, which had more failing schools than every district in the state except Los Angeles. For more than a decade, district and schools officials have thrown every potential solution they could muster at Davidson, from extra teaching aides and individualized attention, to new technology and data-tracking methods. Then last year, the school's standardized test scores - already far below state standards - fell another. (more...)
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