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San Francisco County, CA | November 4, 2008 Election |
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Closing the gap in student achievementBy Kimberly WicoffCandidate for Board Member; San Francisco Unified School District |
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I am proud to live in a city with some of the best urban schools in the state. San Francisco has demonstrated what is possible with the outstanding results of many of our schools. But I'm outraged that in the very same city our African American students get even lower scores than special education students on standardized tests in elementary school. It doesn't matter whether you have kids in our school system or not + as a city that prides itself on being one of the most progressive places in the country, this is simply not acceptable. But changing these results will be difficult, and the work cannot be done by the schools alone. To create lasting change we must work both within the schools to improve curriculum and with parents and communities to help them nurture and support our students.
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