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SB City Unified's number of poor kids ranks at top
- 04-27-2010
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By James Rufus Koren/San Bernardino Sun
The school district has more poor students than any other large school district in California, a fact that academics and district leaders say is at least partly responsible for the district's chronic low performance. But with existing resources, it's not clear what more the San Bernardino City Unified School District can do to ease the problems poverty creates, raise student test scores and put poor students on an even playing field with their more affluent peers. "Poverty is at least one of the components that affects how well students do in school," said Superintendent Arturo Delgado. "But that's not an indicator that kids can't learn." Last school year, more than 45,000 students - nearly 83percent of the district's 54,727 total students - qualified for free or reduced-price lunches. (more...)
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