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BURBANK, AGOURA HILLS : 2 Schools Receive State Recognition

By HENRY CHU
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Two secondary schools in Burbank and Agoura Hills have been named winners in the state Department of Education’s Distinguished Schools Program.

Burbank High School and Lindero Canyon Middle School are among the 104 secondary schools in the state selected as distinguished schools.

The schools were chosen after submitting to a screening process that included examination of dropout rates, student scores on standardized tests, enrollment in advanced academic courses and college attendance rates.

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The designation is the second such honor for Lindero Canyon, located in the Las Virgenes Unified School District.

Burbank was recognized this year for “substantial improvement” as well as for its performance.

The Distinguished Schools Program was launched in 1984 and recognizes elementary and secondary schools in alternate years. Burbank and Lindero Canyon will be honored with the other winners at an awards ceremony in San Francisco on April 22.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

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