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California to list 187 chronically low-performing schools
- 03-09-2010
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By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
To align with the Obama administration's push to reform failing schools, California today will release a controversial list of the state's 187 "persistently lowest-achieving schools." The schools will be forced to close or adopt other drastic measures to improve. Release of the list has been delayed, partly because of its sensitivity. Because of the complicated criteria used to develop the list, it omits a host of low-scoring schools and includes some higher-performing ones. While superintendents and the principals of schools on the list have been informed, the list is being kept secret until 10 a.m. today. (more...)
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