Six Antelope Valley school districts are facing state sanctions for persistently failing to make adequate academic progress, officials said Wednesday. The state has recommended that the Keppel Union School District receive the harshest intervention in which it would be assigned an assistance team that could suggest corrective actions reports the Daily News.
“I think the state has done a good job of coming up with a solution that will be effective and will help us in light of a very difficult and cumbersome law that they are required to implement,” Keppel Superintendent Linda Wagner said, referring to the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
“The state’s decision to allow us to work with a team will actually be welcomed. I’m sure they will have ideas and suggestions that will benefit us and maybe we haven’t thought of yet.”
Recommended for less-severe sanctions were the Antelope Valley Union High, Lancaster, Palmdale, Wilsona and Eastside Union school districts.
The six Antelope Valley school districts are among 13 in Los Angeles County and 97 statewide facing sanctions for the first time under the No Child Left Behind Act because they have not met student-achievement goals for five years.
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