Saturday, August 16, 2008

African American students continue to lag far behind whites in San Francisco

The number of white students who were proficient or better in both math and English was about 50% points higher than the city's black students. In second-grade English, for example, 23% of blacks were proficient, compared to 74% of whites. Special education students had slightly higher proficiency rates than black students in second-, third- and fourth-grade math as well as fourth-grade English. The district tested 41,000 students, including 4,800 African Americans, in grades two through 11 in the spring. San Francisco schools face a steep uphill battle in boosting the test results of black students, educators noted.

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