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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Advanced Placement: Calif. schools rate near top

Advanced Placement: Calif. schools rate near top

Advanced Placement: Calif. schools rate near top

Algernon Quach, 17, takes calculus and two other Advanced Placement classes at Berkeley High School.

In your face, Ohio. Eat our dust, Delaware.

California schools placed among the best in the country when it comes to students passing Advanced Placement tests, one of the few education rankings in which the state doesn't sit at the bottom of the barrel with Mississippi, according to a national report released Wednesday.

Almost a quarter of the state's high school Class of



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