He said the proposed Social Justice High School-Pride Campus would be a college prep school for about 600 students.

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Meanwhile, university officials in California voted earlier this month to overhaul their current admissions system, which guarantees a student a place at a UC campus if he ranks in the top 4% of his high-school class or in the top 12.5% of the graduating class statewide.

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Its 24 -- soon to become 35 -- wireless Ethernet access points link Palmer's 600 middle and high school students across eight campus buildings.

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