Boulder schools try to close gap with lunch

Officials in Colorado's Boulder Valley School District are trying to attack their achievement gap by having all schools enroll a 20% Free and Reduced Lunch population. The idea, according to Dr. Chris King, the district's deputy superintendent, is that schools would then reflect the community and not have some schools with 80% of students on the Free and Reduced program.

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This story published in ASCD SmartBrief on 02/26/2007





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