Middle Schools End ‘Social Promotion’
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Failing eighth-graders have been held back at Santa Rosa middle schools for the first time, officials said. The move ends so-called “social promotion,” the practice of routinely sending all students on to high school.
The district refused to let 21 of its 2,100 eighth-graders advance to ninth grade under a new Board of Education policy.
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