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MVLA shows strides in closing achievement gap

Original post made on Sep 5, 2014

Test scores and grades are improving across the board for minority students, according to a report from the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District. District administrators tout that they've made concerted efforts to bring up academic achievement among Latino students -- and now they have the numbers to prove it.

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Posted by Julie Stone Lopez
a resident of another community
on Sep 5, 2014 at 8:32 pm

I respectfully submit that part of the improvement in at-risk students' scores can be attributed to the JustRead program, a volunteer-based tutoring program which I participated in as a tutor for a couple of years, and which I believe is still ongoing.

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