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Student Reading Scores in California Best in Years
San Francisco Chronicle
For the first time in years, more than half of California's public school students are reading at grade level or above, new test results showed. Of the nearly 5 million students in grades two to 11 tested in reading last spring — including students whose first language isn't English — 52 percent scored "proficient or above," continuing a trend of yearly improvement since 2003, when just 35 percent of students read at that level. Looking at native English speakers alone, reading proficiency climbed to 60 percent — and rose to 69 percent among bilingual English speakers.
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