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Mar 23, 2009 3:55 pm US/Central

DISD Prepares To Reorganize 2 Troubled Schools

Reporting
Steve Pickett
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ― The Dallas School District is preparing to transform two troubled high schools into "gender specific" campuses if needed.

Spruce High School and Samuell High School could become special academies for boys or girls only.

Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said Monday he will present a plan to members of the Board of Education today.  "We could start as early as sixth graders," Hinojosa said.

Both schools have had the unwanted distinction of receiving the state's lowest accountability rating four years in a row.

State law requires a campus restructuring if it receives academic unacceptable ratings five years straight.

Hinojosa is setting in place a school for boys, and one for girls, if the schools fail again.

Last year, Spruce was reorganized as a special academy exclusively for ninth and 12th graders.  Hundreds of students were transferred to other high schools.

The Texas Education Agency realigned campuses in Houston and Austin after the schools failed to move beyond the unacceptable rating.

Dallas ISD already operates the Irma Rangel All-Girls School in South Dallas. The school is a special magnet program.

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