Superintendent: Biggs school shouldn't be on state list
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March 09, 2010 12:09:00 PM
Biggs Middle School in Butte County should not have been included on a list of low-achieving schools in California and the state superintendent will recommend a waiver removing the middle school from the list, the superintendent for Biggs Unified says.
"We have improved our scores," said Bill Cornelius, superintendent for the Biggs Unified School District.
A total of 188 schools in the state, among approximately 10,000 in California, were on the preliminary listing by the California Department of Education released Monday.
Cornelius said that State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell will ask the state Board of Education on Thursday for the Biggs waiver. Other schools in California are
