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Fresno Unified implements new rules at failing schools
- 07-16-2010
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By Tracy Correa/The Fresno Bee
Students returning next month to Fresno's Webster Elementary School, Carver Academy and Yosemite Middle School will find new faces and new rules. Two of the principals and most teachers have been replaced. The schools will have tougher standards, longer school days, extra tutoring, more assessments and far more demands for accountability -- from students, teachers and parents. The dramatic overhaul is the latest effort to turn around failing schools -- those that are persistently in the bottom 5% of schools statewide. (more...)
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