Does your child go to one of the state's worst performing schools?

On Monday, the California Department of Education released a list of the state's worst performing schools, which included a dozen from the Central Valley.
The list is made up of the 5% lowest performing schools in California.
The state is required to compile the list as a provision of the 2009 Stimulus.

Several schools in Fresno County, Tulare County and Kings County all made the list of worst schools in California.

Fresno Unified School District Superintendent, Michael Hanson said, “Certainly we don't want to have any on the list and three is too many, as far as I'm concerned, but as a proportion, it's below where you would expect it to be as a district. We're going to fix this and make the school better in dramatic fashion and you will be the beneficiary of that.”
The Fresno Unified School District says it has already begun conversations with each of the schools on that list; Carver Academy, Webster Elementary, and Yosemite Middle School.

Those schools on the list are required to take action to improve their poor performance.

Under the new law, the bottom 5% schools in the state have to be shut down, become a charter school or be reconstituted or transformed.