Needs Improvement Status News Today

Better. feathers ruffled, nontenured teachers and supervisors were laid off but the school did a 180. >> i am very proud to say this is not my achievement, its their achievement, that in one year they flipped the school so that we were no longer in a needs improvement status. >> reporter: a 33-year-old native of new jersey, says administrators and teachers performed that turnaround with a new philosophy. >> not blaming the kids. i dont want to go home they dont have enough food to eat or a place...

In need of improvement. >> we had a significant percentage of the population that were struggling to meet the benchmark expectations that are required. so it showed us that we had two levels of ft. lee high school. >> we needed to do a better job on our end to make sure that every kid was receiving what he or she needs. >> with the support of the assistant superintendent of ft. lee public schools and as of last fall the interim superintendent, principal church told her teachers they had to do be...