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Seven Walnut Creek Schools Make Honor Roll

Elementaries in the Mount Diablo Unified and Walnut Creek school districts are named 2010 Honor Roll Scholar Schools by the California Business for Education Excellence Foundation.

Seven elementary schools in Walnut Creek have reason to celebrate.

, , and elementary schools in the Mount Diablo Unified School District, and , and schools in the Walnut Creek School District have been named a 2010 Honor Roll Scholar School by the California Business for Education Excellence Foundation.

The 2010 Honor Roll includes 1,221 California public schools recognized by the state’s business community for "having demonstrated consistent high student academic achievement and making significant progress toward closing achievement gaps among all their students."

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According to a news release issued March 25: "The Honor Roll is the premier school recognition program in California that uses hard data, individual school and student subgroup performance data based on the California Standards Tests and the California High School Exit Exam to evaluate school academic performance over time."

“We must change the conversation in public education from being about failure and sanctions to one that focuses on schools and school systems that are getting the kinds of results that Honor Roll schools are achieving,” said Greg Jones, foundation chairman.

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