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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (136753)	9/1/2013 8:24:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I think all that is a good thing, but what I want to know is the school system working for the poor kids--maybe it is as per the test scores--and I also don't mean to say it is your job to find the data on that--if it even exists. It certainly is evident from that article that the Seattle school system is working for some of the kids. From the article: Seattle’s black eighth-graders outscored black eighth-graders elsewhere by 10.6 points.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (136753)	9/2/2013 1:57:21 PM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

The city of Seattle is 81% white or Asian...56% are college grads... city-data.com Few places have that type of demographic..What is most scary these days is you need some combination of the above with very high housing prices force feeding higher funding per pupil for public schools via high real estate taxes in order for disadvantaged students to have a shot. We see that in a few zip codes in our home states but is much more likely in suburbs of the thriving cities of the northeast and west coast. Maybe San Francisco, Seattle and Boston are the true exceptions of urban success left?