Summer school: To have or not to have?

04-12-2010

Blog by Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego

San Diego Unified is recommending the school board spend $4.6 million to keep its summer school programs largely intact this year, offering summer classes to all high schoolers who need to make up Ds and Fs, along with students at risk of being held back in grades 1, 3 and 8 and kids entering algebra at schools in a special transition program. District officials had earlier feared that San Diego Unified might have to pare back on summer school to save money. The school board will decide Tuesday morning whether or not it takes that step. For instance, the board could choose to offer summer school to fewer grades and students in order to save money. Only supplying summer school to high school seniors, for instance, would cost $555,000. The money comes from federal funds for disadvantaged students and state funding. (more...)

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