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Lana Murray (left, with CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano) is the new principal at Wiggins College Preparatory Lab School in Camden, New Jersey. It's a turnaround school - part of President Obama's $3 billion initiative to remake more than 700 of the nation's worst performing schools.
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At Wiggins College Preparatory Lab School, the school day has been extended to 4:30 three days a week and recruited parent volunteers to work with students every week.
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To receive $2.6 million in federal grants, the school was mandated to undergo major changes by re-training teachers, overhauling the curriculum with intense reading and math programs and bringing in specialists to help struggling kids.
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The previous principal was fired. New principal Lana Murray was brought in. Murray has to show results by June or risk losing federal funding.
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The Wiggins fifth graders can already feel the difference. "We got the new things on the computer that we didn't have in fourth grade," says Stefahn Khalid.
