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LAUSD Supt. Cortines backs community plan to improve troubled Fremont School
- 06-25-2010
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By Olu Alemoru/Los Angeles WAVE
Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortines this week threw his support behind community-backed reforms to enhance a plan to restructure South Los Angeles’ chronically underperforming Fremont High School. Cortines addressed a packed room of Fremont students and parents Monday at the headquarters of the Community Coalition, where they, along with community activists, presented him with a reform program aimed at closing the achievement gap, improving test scores and cutting the area’s high dropout rates. The meeting was called in the wake of Cortines’ December announcement that called for radical changes to improve the school’s academic performance. (more...)
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