6th Post - Consistently Low-Achieving Schools in the Bay Area

            On the list of persistently low achieving schools, the schools mentioned are in the poorer or more distraught parts of the bay like Oakland and Hayward.  Basically, most of Alameda County and Contra Costa County was mentioned.  In these worse areas with less money, the schools get less funding.  The schools then end up with little resources, average to below average teachers, and the students who go to the bad schools are unable to go to the better school so that the better schools are protected from bad influences.  It seems very similar to the schools in Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol.  The book was published in 1991 and we are currently in the year 2013.  Schools like these will stay this way if we don’t try to change it.