Summary
Principal Nils Karlsson used to tote around a chart showing what kind of progress his elementary school ought to be making.
This year, about 25percent of his students should be proficient in math and English by state standards. Starting next year, that percentage will rise by about 10points annually.See the full content of this document
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Schools' Special Burden
By 2014, every one of his students must nail the state exams testing their knowledge in those two fields.
"Even if I just came from Mexico," says Karlsson, who heads J. Calvin Boyd School in Rialto. "Even if I have mental problems."He stopped carrying the chart, he jokes, because he just got sick of looking at it. At a sch...See the full content of this document
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