Three Los Angeles County public schools are proving that poverty doesn’t have to dictate academic success.
A new national report has identified five California public schools that are dramatically outperforming expectations when it comes to teaching children how to read — and three LA County schools that serve student populations where more than 90% of children live in poverty.
The findings come from education news outlet The 74, which analyzed reading scores from nearly 42,000 public schools around the country to identify campuses where literacy rates far exceeded what researchers would typically expect based on poverty levels.
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