High School Case Study

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This case study starts of with a school office clerk calling a student at seven fivteen in the morning to remained them to go to school.* The school was spending two hour a day calling students to get them to class on time. When that did not work the school change their tactics by focusing on the worst offenders. This was all due to the fact that chicago won twenty million dollars in federal money to improve the worst performing schools in the state.* The school officals were determined to use strategy and a system that would measure schools progress that can be use to hold teachers and students accountability.* In fact, it was the same system used by New York city officials to hold police stations accountability for the crime rate.*That’s

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