Sacramento Unified School District
 

• Districtwide enrollment – 52,000
• 9 Comprehensive HS, 2 Alternative, 1 magnet – 13,000 students total
• 72% minority – basically ¼ of each white, black, Latino, and Asian
• Significant Achievement Gap, 30% LEP, Low API's, 58% 9 graders graduate
• Carnegies and Gates grants awarded to local School-to-Career Partnership – LEED - to facilitate transformation with SCUSD
• Clear and concise Board Policy passed with 14 points of SLCs defined
• Hiram Johnson High School, 2,690 students, and Will C Wood High School, 1,200 students, start with converting grades 9 and 10 to SLCs averaging 200 students taking at least 85% classes together. Sacramento HS, 2,025 students, has been closed and will reopen in September 2003 as a charter school of separate academies led by the St. Hope Foundation.
• After challenging start – launched a sophisticated and thoughtful stakeholder engagement and public relations campaign
• 8 new schools planned to be opened – 3 in 2003/4 with 110-500 students, based on national models, including the MET, New Technology High School, and America’s Choice
• Hired external evaluator
• Significant investment in leadership training
• Selected eight themes