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Stockton Unified School District

State to McNair and Lodi Middle: Never mind!

Hey, McNair High School and Lodi Middle School: Never mind! You’re not as low-performing as we said you were three days ago! That was the message today from the California Department of Education, which released a revised list of Tier II persistently low-performing schools. On Monday, McNair and Lodi Middle were on the list. Now, they’re [...]
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SUSD meeting preview

Sorry this wasn’t up sooner, but it’s been a busy Monday and Tuesday. Aside from the public hearing on the topic du jour, the board will look tonight at several topics:
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Tier II low-performers

There actually were two lists released today by the CDE: This one of schools definitely on the low-performing list and a second one of schools that might have a chance to receive a waiver. But listening to the officials from the state, it sounds as if not too many waivers will be given out. Here [...]
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SUSD agenda

It will be the seventh consecutive Tuesday, but hey, who’s counting? The agenda is here.
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Low-performing list coming Monday

The CDE now says it will release its oft-delayed list of the lowest-performing schools on Monday. Here’s the press release: The California Department of Education (CDE) will release at approximately 10:00 a.m. Monday a list that identifies five percent of the state’s persistently lowest-achieving schools as required by state and federal laws associated [...]
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Low performers

Race To The Top money is not coming to California, but the rules are here and not going away, and they are likely to mean significant changes to the lowest-performing schools in the state in 2010-11. Seven SUSD schools are on a tentative list of 187 schools statewide that will be affected. The schools are [...]
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Hot off the presses

Well, not really, but as promised last night, if you’d like to see SUSD’s latest certificated layoff resolution, the one passed last night by the board, along with the last of the 230 positions targeted for elimination, here it is.
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SUSD Live — 6th Tuesday in a row

Closed session is over and the meeting is underway. It’s supposed to be a short one. The board did approve sending notices to principals telling them they COULD be reassigned. Ramirez voted no and Castillo is not at the meeting. Public comments Steve Vaczovsky: He’s speaking about the big march scheduled for Thursday to protest state budget cuts. [...]
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Race to the Chaos

Last week, the state was preparing to release a list of low-performing schools that districts would be required to close, allow to be run by outsiders as charter schools, make wholesale staff changes to or implement governance and instructional changes. The result of this was expected to be that numerous principals would be required by [...]
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4-um turns out to be a 5-um

Five parents turned out at Chavez High last night for the first of four forums where the public can describe the traits they hope SUSD’s next superintendent will possess. The forums continue tonight, tomorrow and Thursday from 6:30-8 at Edison, Franklin and Stagg, respectively.For the 299,993 Stockton residents who weren’t there last night (subtracting the [...]
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