The Choice Channel

“California schools face an uphill battle in their effort to meet federally mandated achievement goals, with some 700 schools facing reorganization for repeated noncompliance with the No Child Left Behind Act, a study released today says. The Center on Education Policy, based in Washington, D.C., found that the number of schools facing reorganization soared 42 percent from 2005-06 to 2006-07. The reason, officials said, is the inability of many schools to overcome “program improvement” status despite repeated efforts to raise student test scores. ‘I think it’s difficult to get out, but not impossible,’ said Janis Fries-Martinez, the principal of Francis Polytechnic High School in Sun Valley, which faces mandatory reorganization because it’s been a program-improvement campus for five years.” (02/28/07)