Most Danville schools beat benchmarks
By Noelle McGee
Thursday August 28, 2008
Rick Danzl/The News-Gazette
Fifth-grade teachers Sue Jenkins, left, and Beth Cowan put fixings on their Moon Glo moonburgers Wednesday at the Southwest Elementary School library. Principal John Hart treated the staff to the special lunch to celebrate the school's 2008 Illinois Standards Achievement Test scores. The school met and exceeded state standards last year.
TILTON – At 7:30 Wednesday morning, some teachers at Southwest Elementary School screamed. Others hugged and cried.
They were celebrating the latest high-stakes standardized test scores that showed the school had met and exceeded Illinois learning standards in 2008, something it fell short of doing the year before.
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