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Why college readiness rates vary so widely across Contra Costa County high schools
AT FIRST GLANCE the numbers don’t seem real: at Antioch High School, only about 23% of graduating students met the course requirements to apply to University of California and California State University schools last year at this time. Just miles away at Miramonte High School in Orinda, that number jumps to around 90%. Across Contra […] The post Why college readiness rates vary so widely across Contra Costa County high schools appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Why college readiness rates vary so widely across Contra Costa County high schools, AT FIRST GLANCE the numbers don’t seem real: at Antioch High School, only about 23% of graduating students met the course requirements to apply to University of California and California State University schools last year at this time. Just miles away at Miramonte High School in Orinda, that number jumps to around 90%. Across Contra […] The post Why college readiness rates vary so widely across Contra Costa County high schools appeared first on Local News Matters .
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