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Inland schools among state's worst
10:15 PM PST on Monday, March 8, 2010
By DAYNA STRAEHLEY
The Press-Enterprise
Sixteen Inland schools made a list of the lowest performing campuses in the state, but officials said Monday they are working to reverse the trends.
The schools are on the preliminary list of the bottom 5 percent in academic performance. The California Department of Education released the first-ever list on Monday. Each campus must choose one of four school improvement models required by state and federal law. Most of the schools are listed because of low test scores, but five were identified for low graduation rates.
March Mountain High School, Moreno Valley Unified School District's continuation school for students lacking credits to graduate, is one campus with a low graduation rate, almost 46 percent, according to the department.
Part of the problem is a significant number of foster homes in town and placement homes in for juvenile courts from outside Riverside County, Moreno Valley school board member Rick Sayre said by phone. Those students are often years behind in the credits they need to graduate, he said.
Superintendent Rowena Lagrosa said she met Friday after school with March Mountain teachers and the teachers association president to plan ways to work together.
Perris and Alvord school district officials said they already have been working on the schools that made the list.
"Our plan started this year, but they haven't tested since that," Perris School District board member Shirley Zschokke said of Good Hope Elementary School.
"We're seeing progress," Zschokke said.
Alvord Unified School District officials said they have seen gains in their schools' Academic Performance Index, including 20 points at Norte Vista High School in Riverside last year, to 641, but that apparently wasn't enough. The index goes from 200 to 1,000 with a statewide goal of 800 or more.
California is eligible to receive $415.8 million to turn around its lowest-performing schools. Campuses on the list qualify for school improvement grants of $50,000 to $2 million.
Districts with campuses on the list must choose one of four ways to improve a school: closing it, turning it over to a charter school operator, a "Turnaound Model" replacing the principal and at least half the staff, or a "Transformation Model." The Transformation Model includes replacing the principal and making teachers more effective, reforming instruction and increasing learning time, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
If they apply for federal school improvement grants, to be awarded in July, they must start those changes by the beginning of the 2010-11 school year. Even if they don't seek grants, schools must choose one of the four methods, although sanctions and time limits have yet to be spelled out in state law, officials in Sacramento said Monday.
The San Bernardino City Unified School District has seven schools on the list, Communications Director Linda Bardere said. The district wants to copy programs and approaches that have raised achievement at other schools, she said. The school board will meet today and discuss possible staffing changes for the seven campuses.
The state board of education will act on the final list Thursday and could add or drop a few schools, state officials said.
Riverside County Office of Education Deputy Superintendent Paul Jessup said the Riverside County Community Schools program may be dropped because he said state law exempts community schools. The program has 14 campuses that serve students previously expelled by their local school districts or released from juvenile hall.
LOWEST-ACHIEVING SCHOOLS
The state released a list Monday of its 188 lowest achieving schools in three categories.
Based on graduation rate:
March Mountain High, Moreno Valley
Tier 1 (schools receiving federal funds for low-income students):
Good Hope Elementary, Perris School District
Barton Elementary, San Bernardino City Unified School District
Davidson Elementary, San Bernardino City Unified
Hunt Elementary, San Bernardino City Unified
Marshall Elementary, San Bernardino City Unified
Rio Vista Elementary, San Bernardino City Unified
Wilson Elementary, San Bernardino City Unified
Pacific Elementary, San Bernardino City Unified
Riverside County Community School, run by Riverside County Office of Education
Tier 2 (generally secondary schools that don't receive federal funds for low-income students)
Norte Vista High, Alvord Unified School District in Riverside
Ruth O. Harris Middle, Colton
A.B. Miller High, Fontana
Henry J. Kaiser High, Fontana
Summit High, Fontana
Wilmer Amina Carter High, Rialto
SOURCE: CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/s...9.4320b1b.html
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