California has a high population of minority students who are
part of low performing demographics (i.e. black, hispanic,
native american, somali, phillipino, etc.) The schools with a
lot of white, Chinese, Korean, and other high performing
demographics do very well on the state tests.

On 10/15/09, Cnn wrote:
> Immigration is the reason. Our top students do just as well
> if not better than students from other states. California
> has the most immigrints from poor countries than any other
> state. It takes years for a stundent eith little formal
> education, whose parents have little formal education to catch
> up. California will nfver outperform Connecticut. Apples and
> oranges. Not all groups of immigrints perform poorly. Look
> at the test scores of recent Korean immigrints whose parents
> usually have some form of formal education if not college
>
>
> On 10/15/09, wondering wrote:
>> I am hearing a lot of chatter, on radio, tv, and newspapers
>> that CA schools are just above Mississippi and Alabama in
>> how students are doing on tests. I'd like to know why that
>> is. I have my own ideas, but it would be good to hear from
>> people that are in the field, not talking heads,
>> politicians with an agenda, and disgruntled parents.
>>
>> Just how did CA go from being innovative and at the top in
>> public education to where we are now?

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