History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Students question 'Failing' status of their schools
- 03-19-2010
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Just how bad are high schools named as California’s lowest performing schools? Students at several of them in San Francisco say their schools are being unfairly judged. Last week, the California Board of Education released a list of the 188 lowest-performing public schools in the state. On that list are 10 San Francisco schools, including John O’Connell High School and Mission High School. The San Francisco school board has four options in dealing with these schools: convert them to charter schools, fire the principal and replace more than half of the staff, “transform the schools,” or shut them down and send the students to a higher-achieving school. (more...)
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