Marin Independent Journal - Charter school offers... -
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Published on: 6/12/2006
Last Visited: 6/12/2006
"We're really committed to providing kids with what California students had in the '70s," said Carol Cooper, Willow Creek's principal.
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The disparity in per-student expenditures is largely attributed to the district's higher administrative, payroll and special education costs, Cooper said.
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An equal number of students hail from both Marin City and Sausalito, Cooper said.
The school's racial makeup is diverse: 30 percent of the students are black, 27 percent are white, 27 percent are Hispanic, 7 percent are Asian, and about 9 percent are either multiracial or are unaccounted for in state figures.
By contrast, in the Sausalito Marin City School District black students account for about 54 percent of the enrollment; white students, 16 percent; Hispanics, 18 percent; Asians, 6 percent; and about 6 percent were either multiracial or unaccounted for in state figures.
"We have a much larger racial mix from Marin," Cooper said.
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Cooper agreed, and added that the school had not caved to mounting pressure on public schools to improve API scores by limiting lessons to test content versus projects, art and other subjects.
"We absolutely don't teach to the test, but we include state standards," Cooper said.