Thursday, March 25, 2010

North Monterey County High removed from state's 'low-achieving' list

The announcement came Thursday morning after the state Board of Education unanimously voted to change its methodology for choosing how schools make the list for low performance. As a 'Tier 2' school, North Monterey County High receives Title 1 funding, which typically goes to districts with children from high-poverty areas; the changes made Thursday remove North Monterey County High and 36 other schools from the Tier 2 list. There are 10 Tier 1 schools on the state's final list from Monterey County, including Bardin Elementary and Martin Luther King Jr. Academy - both in the Alisal Union School District in Salinas - and Greenfield Union and Vista Verde Middle School in Greenfield. On Wednesday, the boards of each district approved layoff notices slips for school principals, two in Greenfield and 11 in Alisal.

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[posted by Andrew Brown]

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