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Twenty-four San Ramon Valley Schools Make Honor Roll
Two dozen San Ramon Valley Unified School District schools were named in the 2010 Honor Roll Scholar School by the California Business for Education Excellence Foundation.
Twenty-four San Ramon Valley Unified School District schools have reason to celebrate.
That's the number of campuses that have been named on the 2010 Honor Roll Scholar School by the California Business for Education Excellence Foundation.
All of the local campuses that were chosen are elementary and middle schools.
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The 2010 Honor Roll includes 1,221 California public schools. Each school on the list is being recognized by California’s business community for "having demonstrated consistent high student academic achievement and making significant progress toward closing achievement gaps among all their students."
According to a news release issued March 25: "The Honor Roll is the premier school recognition program in California that uses hard data, individual school and student subgroup performance data based on the California Standards Tests and the California High School Exit Exam to evaluate school academic performance over time."
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“We must change the conversation in public education from being about failure and sanctions to one that focuses on schools and school systems that are getting the kinds of results that Honor Roll schools are achieving,” said Greg Jones, foundation chairman.
Click here for the complete list and details about each school.
The San Ramon Valley schools on the list are:
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