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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
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- July 3, 2002
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Byline: Jessica Portner
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Thousands of Bay Area students in chronically low-performing public schools from Redwood City to Santa Cruz will have the option of transferring to better schools when the new academic year begins this fall, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
In a novel initiative that extends the notion of public-school choice, President Bush signed a law in January that requires districts to allow poor students attending schools that fail to demonstrate academic improvements over a two-year period the option of going elsewhere. The U.S. Department of Education released the numbers of schools in each state on ...