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		dragonwriter on Oct 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 2017 California school test scores: Why are they f... > Still, the question of "why are the schools in and around Silicon Valley doing so poorly?" is worth discussing. It probably is but California is, by population or number of schools, mostly “in and around Los Angeles”, not “in and around Silicon Valley.”

swivelmaster on Oct 10, 2017 [–]

The data that the article highlights is from the Bay Area, though.

dragonwriter on Oct 10, 2017 | [–]

It picks numbers from four Bay Area counties, but not really the four anyone would pick if they were concerned with “in and around Silicon Valley” (particularly, Contra Costa is included but not San Francisco.)

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