I have seen not only immigrants from typically underperforming
groups, but I have seen immigrants that are in special education in
our district. A double whammy.

On 10/15/09, same answer wrote:
> 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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