S.B. district taking action at 11 campuses ranked among lowest in state
By Darrell R. Santschi/Riverside Press-Enterprise
At least five principals will be replaced and six schools will be converted to charter status in the wake of a state report ranking 11 San Bernardino schools among the state's lowest-performing 5 percent. Two of the principals -- Karen Craig of Arroyo Valley High School and Sandy Robbins of San Gorgonio High -- already planned to retire, San Bernardino City Unified School District Superintendent Arturo Delgado said by phone. The other three principals, at Barton and Marshall elementary schools and Serrano Middle School, may be moved to another school or demoted, he said. Principals must be removed from low-performing schools using a transformation model, one of four alternatives laid out by the state Department of Education when it released its list of low-performing schools in March. (more...)