Group Proposes Taking Over Troubled School
A nonprofit group is proposing to take over Nystrom Elementary School, a downtrodden campus where academic achievement and family income rank among the lowest in Contra Costa County, and turn it into an alternative public school.
The proposal from the Richmond Children’s Foundation, a nonprofit created from leftover settlement money from a 1993 General Chemical explosion, would maintain Nystrom as a neighborhood school in the West Contra Costa school district, but free the campus from some union rules and financial constraints that other district schools must uphold.
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