Gazette: Math, elementary reading proficiency drops for Montgomery County students

...At the elementary school level, the gap between the number of both black and Hispanic students proficient in math and their white and Asian counterparts increased by about five and seven percentage points, respectively, according to the data.
The proficiency gap between black and Hispanic middle school students and their white counterparts in math grew by about 3.5 to 4 percentage points.
In elementary school reading, the proficiency gap widened by about four percentage points between Hispanic students and their white counterparts...

...“It means that our teachers and our staff and our leaders are doing exactly what we’ve been asking them to do,” Starr said.

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