No blaming the parents and community at this middle School

Keillor Leadership Academy in southeast San Diego improved its test scores.

By EMILY ALPERT
June 10, 2008
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2008/06/14/education/896keiller061008.txt
"A southeast San Diego charter school has quietly done the improbable, becoming one of only two California middle schools to pull itself out of No Child Left Behind's purgatory...

"It's so easy to blame the parents, or the community" for low achievement, Executive Director Patricia Ladd said. "All those things we can't control. We have to take things as they are and stop the blame game."

"Keiller's director attributes many of its reforms, including its changed culture and new focus on vocabulary, to the freedom it enjoys after converting into a charter school. Charters are independently run but publicly funded schools that are not bound by school district rules..."