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Board seeks to shutter failing charter schools
- 07-30-2010
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By Jill Tucker/San Francisco Chronicle
Failing charter schools across California could be shut down by the state Board of Education under a major policy shift aimed at ensuring that the alternative public schools fulfill their role as models of academic innovation. Dozens of the state's 850 or so charter schools, which have significant freedom outside the state Education Code, fall among the lowest-performing schools on standardized tests. That's unacceptable, state Board of Education members say. (more...)
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