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Test scores are mixed, costs are high and teachers are pissed. Why critics say Sacramento city school reform could …
By Cosmo Garvin
cosmog@newsreview.com
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Full disclosure: Reporter Cosmo Garvin’s wife is a teacher in the Sacramento City Unified School District. |
In Sacramento City Unified School District, the same schools often lag behind on the alphabet soup of standards that schools are measured by these days: the Academic Performance Index, the California Standards Tests, the Early Assessment Program, the list goes on. And these struggling schools tend to cluster in low-income neighborhoods.
But last year, SCUSD’s Superintendent Jonathan Raymond launched a plan to turn around the failing schools.