Taking Back a School

Joanne Jacobs:

In Indianapolis, a new principal tries to take back the city’s worst middle school, a place of disorder, violence and rock-bottom expectations. He transfers 17-year-old seventh- and eighth-graders to alternative schools, suspended students for fighting and tries to enforce a dress code.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 21, 2007 6:58 AM
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