5 Bay Area schools off worst-in-state list
Friday, March 12, 2010
Two San Francisco high schools were removed from the list of the 5 percent lowest-performing schools in the state Thursday - a welcome reprieve, but one that will cost them up to $6 million each.
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Burton and Thurgood Marshall academic high schools were dropped from the list after a California Board of Education vote Thursday allowing a technical change in how middle and high schools were chosen.
Of the 188 schools originally on the list released Monday, 37 were removed and replaced by 37 other schools, the vast majority in Southern California. The change leaves San Francisco with 10 district schools that are designated as among the worst in the state.
"I am completely euphoric," said Thurgood Marshall Principal Guillermo Morales, adding that his staff members cried when they learned earlier this week that they were on the list. "You take it very personally."
The schools on the state's final list will have to implement one of four drastic reform options: closure, conversion to a charter, replacement of the principal and half the staff, or a massive makeover starting with a new principal.
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