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FL schools closing the gaping divide amongst low and high-income students. | Extra! Extra!

FL schools closing the gaping divide amongst low and high-income students. | Extra! Extra!
Extra! Extra!

FL schools closing the gaping divide amongst low and high-income students.

Sharona Coutts and Jennifer LaFleur of ProPublica lay out, flawlessly, data previously unreleased by the federal government that shows “Florida leads the nation in the percentage of high-school students enrolled in high-level classes—Advanced Placement and advanced math. That holds true across rich and poor districts.”

LaFleur, Coutts, Al Shaw, and Jeff Larson also put together a database that lets you search your own school district to compare.

http://projects.propublica.org/schools/