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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, it's 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 don't want to go home they don't have enough food to eat or a place to do their homework. i can't change that. what i can do is change the services i provide and ho...

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 better. feathers were ruffled, some teachers were laid off, but in a single school year, the students'...