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The Berkeley Unified School District Board offered cautious praise at last Wednesday’s meeting to Critical Pathways, a new Berkeley High School program intended to give a boost to ninth graders in danger of failing. 

“I’m very pleased with what I’ve heard, and I’m very hard to please,” said Board Vice President Shirley Issel. The program, she said, “required a tremendous amount of coordinating and commitment.” 

“I thought it went really well,” Berkeley High School Principal Frank Lynch said after the meeting, “Only because we have our