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News - March 23, 2007

More work needed, educators report

School district makes gains, yet falls short on minority achievement-gap goals

by Susan Hong

Even though high school seniors in the Palo Alto Unified School District achieved the highest combined SAT score of any unified K-12 school district in California last year, local educators say "more work needs to be done" to close the achievement gap between some minority students and whites.

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Editorial Intern Susan Hong can be e-mailed at shong@paweekly.com.

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