A Silicon Valley-based school reform group has published a list of the area's 28 most-underperforming schools, but some say that the list, which includes mostly schools that serve poor and Latino students, according to reports, is just an attempt at "an advertisement for charter schools," the newspaper reported.
Mountain View-based Innovate Public Schools says that attending these institutions dooms 15,000 students to a path "toward failure and a lifetime of low wages," according to the Mercury News.
Six are in Redwood City's school district, five are in San Jose Unified, and four are in San Jose's Franklin-McKinley School District, the newspaper reported.
The report also highlighted five good schools, four of which are charter schools.
School officials said that the ratings are based on Academic Performance Index scores recorded during a time of deep budget cuts.
The ratings are also based on scores in English for students who are low-income and come from non-English speaking families, the newspaper reported.
The bad schools included Fair Oaks, Garfield, Hawes, Hoover, John Gill and Selby Lane in Redwood City, and Empire Gardens, Gardner, Horace Mann, Olinder and Hoover.
