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3 Schools to Get State Help Under New Accountability System

schoolLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Department of Education’s new accountability system has named three public schools among 87 listed as the state’s lowest-performing that will receive state intervention.

Druid Hill Elementary School in Omaha, Loup County Public School in Taylor and a middle school on the Santee Reservation near Niobrara were named “priority” schools Friday. State teams will work with those schools to devise plans indicating what goals they must reach to be taken off the list.

A 2014 state law mandated the new Accountability of a Quality Education System Today and Tomorrow system, in which all of Nebraska’s 1,130 schools are classified as excellent, great, good or needs improvement.

Eighty percent fell into the two middle levels. Thirteen percent were classified as excellent.

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