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Sacramento Bee: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson isn't overly excited about the progress in the city's schools reflected by state test scores released Monday.
While most school districts in the region showed improvements in their Academic Performance Index scores, the number of schools failing academically also increased, according to the data.
Fewer than half the schools in the Sacramento City Unified School District met academic targets and 39 percent of third-graders are reading at grade level, the mayor said. Third-grade reading scores are behind what they are in Oakland, a city whose school district was recently under state receivership, he said.
"We have to acknowledge we have a problem and we can't act like incremental growth is going to get us (to success)," Johnson said Tuesday. "For anybody who thinks that we can continue to mosey along the same way at the same pace and think we're going to get different results and be competitive is greatly mistaken."
The mayor said he would provide ideas in the coming weeks on how he would work to improve the schools. He said he would ask the business community for help and is also expected to endorse and campaign for candidates for the three seats up for grabs in November on the Sacramento City Unified School District board.
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