Read the whole article, it's very interesting. Why aren't black students on the same level as their peers? Does it have anything to do with the middle class leaving San Francisco?San Francisco schools earned bragging rights on state standardized tests again this year - performing better than the state as a whole across every grade in both math and English - but any celebration was clouded by the subpar proficiency of the district's African American students, who continued to fall further behind their peers.
Nearly all other categories of San Francisco students, regardless of ethnicity, income or English language ability, outscored the city's black students in California Standards Test results posted Thursday.
On the plus side, the scores of black students did go up about 1 percentage point in math proficiency and nearly 1 percentage point in English.
But that wasn't as much as everyone else, meaning the achievement gap in San Francisco got worse.
"The achievement gap is the greatest civil rights issue facing our country today," school Superintendent Carlos Garcia said in a statement.
The number of white students who were proficient or better in both math and English was about 50 percentage points higher than the city's black students. In second-grade English, for example, 23 percent of blacks were proficient, compared to 74 percent 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.
Via Newsalert!
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