Photo of Benjamin Schmookler courtesy of Howard Ruffner
Benjamin Schmookler, principal of Media Academy – a small school on East Oakland’s Fremont Federation campus — agreed to be dunked today during a celebration of the school’s improved test scores. Media Academy’s state test scores went up by 79 points to 600 (on a scale of 200 to 1,000), the biggest gain seen in all of the district’s high schools this year.
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