SD school board may ease curbs on promotions

04-13-2010

By Maureen Magee/San Diego Union-Tribune

This year could mark the end of a policy that keeps failing students in San Diego from being promoted to the next grade level unless they complete summer intervention classes. The school board will take a hard look at its summer school offerings during a meeting today that will examine different scenarios designed to save money and serve the most students. Administrators with the San Diego Unified School District have recommended that the board spend $4.6 million to maintain its summer program this year for students on the brink of failure in first, third and eighth grades. High school students also would have a chance to retake summer classes to make up Ds and Fs they earned in core courses. (more...)

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