Word: crls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Parents, students and teachers packed the cafeteria at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) at last night's School Committee meeting to protest the proposed changes to the city's high school attendance policy...
...This policy is going to make a kid on track to go to Princeton sit up and take notice, but what about the kids who are already struggling to stay in school? This policy will just drive those kids out," said CRLS parent Pat Jakowski...
...This policy assumes that CRLS students don't have families that need them sometimes," said student school committee member Rebecca Wheeler. "I've had to stay home four times already this year--twice to take care of my younger brother when he was sick. Under this policy, if I'm absent again I would have to go before a committee to plead my case to keep my academic credit...
...school year, 8.8 percent of CRLS students were designated "limited English proficient"--nearly twice the state average...
...past, CRLS has been relatively successful in graduating its students. The annual dropout rate from grades 9-12 was only 2 percent in 1996-97, less than half the 1994-95 rate and significantly less than the state average...