Salem schools struggle with shifting politics, challenging demographics, lagging students
Bailee Moore, center, and classmates work on a computer math exercise in Becky Montgomery’s second grade class at Highland Elementary School in Salem Wednesday March 13, 2019. (Fred Joe/Special to Salem Reporter)
One hour before school started, eight educators sat around a table at Four Corners Elementary, looking at a graph.
The line showed one second-grade boy’s progress on reading at grade level since he enrolled at the school. It wasn’t heading in the right direction.
