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Like Yelp for school: How a charter network uses student reviews to change how they teach
A focus group-style exit interview has become part of the year-end ritual at PUC Schools. Over five weeks this year, co-founder Jacqueline Elliott spoke with all of the roughly 260 seniors graduating from the charter network’s high schools in the San Fernando Valley. The network’s other co-founder, Ref Rodriguez, interviews the seniors at PUC’s high schools in East Los Angeles. By Kyle Stokes, KPCC

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