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Carrollton blog: Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD fails to regain 'recognized' TEA rating 12:22 PM CT | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Carrollton blog: Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD fails to regain 'recognized' TEA rating 12:22 PM CT



01:09 PM CDT on Friday, July 30, 2010

By AVI SELK / The Dallas Morning News
aselk@dallasnews.com

C-FB failed to get a recognized rating from the state for the 09-10 school year, the school district just announced.
That's surprising. Just last month district officials were confidently telling reporters (OK, me) that they expected to get a ratings bump.
The district slipped from "recognized" to "acceptable" last summer because of high Hispanic dropout rates. But the district worked to reduce those dropout rates throughout the last school year.
In a press release last month, superintendent Bobby Burns anticipated the district would be recognized again this year. He called it a "stellar achievement."
The party got spoiled, apparently, by Barbara Bush Middle School, which slipped to an "unacceptable" rating this year because of a high