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Five San Jose schools could escape 'lowest-performing' label
- 03-11-2010
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By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
It's been a roller coaster at seven San Jose schools suddenly thrust into the limelight Monday after state officials publicly branded them among the worst schools in the state. On Wednesday, the same officials changed their minds and drew up an alternative bad-schools list — granting five local schools a reprieve. Peter Burnett, Herbert Hoover, Ocala, Joseph George and August Boeger middle schools were crossed off a new listing of the bottom 5 percent of the state's schools; if the State Board of Education agrees, they avoid drastic requirements for reform, such as closing, firing the principal and staff or converting to a charter. The state board is scheduled to sort it out today. (more...)
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