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Fordham, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank focused on education, started with 816 public elementary and middle schools that showed high scores and progress on state tests. Then it narrowed the field to 55 schools where at least 75 percent of students come from low-income families.

Only 16 of those schools were in Ohio’s eight urban districts, where Fordham wanted to concentrate its scrutiny. Almost half of district and charter schools in the “Big 8” got grades of D or F in the state’s latest ranking.

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article courtesy of ThePlainDealer.com

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