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Garinger mini school tops others: New Technology's progress among best in CMS.

The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC )

| September 23, 2007 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Steve Lyttle

Sep. 23--The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' experiment with mini high schools yielded so-so results on last spring's end-of-grade test scores -- with one notable exception.

The New Technology High School at Garinger, one of five smaller high schools on the Garinger campus, achieved some of the biggest improvement in student performance in the CMS system.

The school's 200 or so students achieved high growth on the tests, and 83.2 percent of them scored at or above grade level.

That's considerably better than any of the other mini high schools at Garinger and Olympic. The next-best performance was at Garinger's…

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