sentences:  During the 1999–2000 academic year, Balboa shifted its academic program to the concept of Small Learning Communities (SLC).These communities would form a 
  'school within a school" in an effort to turn around past poor academic performance.To support the formation of SLCs, Balboa was the recipient of funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2004 and 2005 through the Every Child Can Learn Foundation Secondary Redesign Initiative.