LANSING (WKZO) — State School Superintendent Mike Flanagan has taken 27 school buildings off a list of over 250 on a statewide list of schools that were under the “priority” supervision of the Michigan School Reform/Redesign Office.
They were considered to be be the bottom five percent in student achievement.
The two-dozen plus have met requirements for staffing and other changes to show that districts have made real attempts to improve the quality of the education offered at those schools.
Among those no longer under this spotlight are Kalamazoo’s Maple Street Magnet School for the Arts, Bloomingdale’s Middle and High School and Cassopolis’ Ross Beatty High School.
The list is a provision of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.