Friday, March 13, 2009
DISD’s Spruce and Samuell High Schools in trouble; face closure
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The Dallas Independent School District may be forced to reconfigure further if veteran underperforming high schools Spruce and Samuell are shut down by the state, as appears entirely possible. (The disposition of the schools hinges on student test scores which will be available for review in May.)
Seems both Spruce and Samuell have weathered four straight years of landing on the Texas Education Agency's list of unacceptable campuses. If, indeed, students' test scores fail to rise and the schools are closed, DISD will consider rolling out a new school, but there's a problem: all the kids from Spruce and Samuell couldn't be relocated there, because the state regulations won't allow kids from a failed school to be grouped together again in a new one.
If the schools are forced to close, options include opening one new facility for 9th and 10th graders, and another for 11th and 12th graders; or the creation of one school just for boys and the other for girls.
posted by JM
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