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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Sacramento-area schools improve scores but not enough - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee


Sacramento-area schools improve scores but not enough - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News Sacramento Bee:

"The achievement gap between white and Asian students and their black and Latino classmates narrowed slightly. The average API score for Asians was 878, 828 for whites, 698 for Latinos and 674 for blacks.

The number of California elementary schools that met the federal standard increased from 58 percent to 61 percent. But the number fell from 33 percent to 29 percent for middle schools. It fell most sharply for high schools, from 49 percent to 37 percent."