Oregon gets $33 million from feds to turn around Roosevelt High, other chronically low-achieving schools
Published: Wednesday, July 07, 2010, 12:28 PM Updated: Wednesday, July 07, 2010, 2:49 PM
Oregon won approval today from the Obama administration for its plan to turn around its lowest performing high-poverty schools -- and $33 million in federal funding to pay for the school transformations.
To apply for the funds, Oregon had to list its worst-performing high-poverty schools, including all high schools with at least 75 percent low income students who failed to graduate 60 percent of them on time.
The six so-called "Tier I" schools at highest priority for a dramatic revamping included all three small academies on the campus of Portland's Roosevelt High. Portland school district
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