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March 7, 2008
| Improving our schools: What’s being done? |
By Bill Highlander
Editor
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is a program meant to raise the educational standards for schools and school districts throughout the country. The Bush administration provides federal funding to support program improvement and sanctions for those under performing schools.
But is it working? And what do the standards really mean? How will sanctions help? How are the schools in Evergreen doing?
The East Side Union High School District (ESUHSD) was one of 96 school districts cited by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as troubled and needing intervention. The sanctions ranged in severity and ESUHSD received a “light” rating, meaning Read more...
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| City Council moves to compromise on Vietnamese retail area
Large crowd, long meeting, no name chosen
By Carol Rosen
Editor
Nearly 300 people spoke to San Jose’s City council members on Tuesday night, the vast majority asking the city to rename an area of retail shops on Story Road “Little Saigon.”
Despite more than five hours of speakers, a straw count of 286 people, the council voted unanimously to rescind its actions taken on Nov. 20 to designate the area Saigon Business District and the actions taken on June 5 referring to the area as a Read
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