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On March 22, The Bakersfield Californian listed the “top five” and “bottom five” county schools, making an unfair comparison. At the “top five” schools, 18.2 percent, 22.8 percent, 14.6 percent, 13 percent, and 18.2 percent of the students qualified for free and reduced-price meals. At the “bottom five” schools, 98.6 percent, 89.7 percent, 86 percent, 62.5 percent and 99.6 percent of the students qualified for free and reduced-price meals. Clearly these schools are working with children from quite different economicbackgrounds.For high schools in Kern County, the correlation between the percentage of students qualifying for free and reduced meals and the 2005 API Base is -.769. For middle schools, the correlation is -.879. For elementary schools in the Bakersfield City School District, the correlation is -.894. All of these correlations are highly significant, and suggest a very close relationship between the degree of...
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