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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

At that time, more than 80 percent of students were failing to meet state proficiency standards , and the school was graduating less than half of its students. On a recent fall afternoon, Norris sat among her department colleagues in an empty science classroom for a weekly strategy meeting to develop the new curriculum. “We

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