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D.C. schools have largest black-white achievement gap in federal study

Written by Lyndsey Layton for The Washington Post. Read the entire article here.
D.C. public schools have the largest achievement gap between black and white students among the nation’s major urban school systems, a distinction laid bare in a federal study released Wednesday.

“The District also has the widest achievement gap between white and Hispanic students, the study found,