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Most California kids can’t read well or do basic math, damning new test scores show
NYP ^ | 10 15 2026 | Zain Khan

Posted on 10/19/2026 7:52:27 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

A majority of California students still can’t read or do math at grade level, with new standardized test scores showing little to no gains despite years of efforts to recover from pandemic-era learning losses.

Just 49.3% of students met or exceeded state English language arts standards in 2025-26, while only 38.4% reached proficiency in math, according to California’s latest test results released Thursday.

The scores are from tests administered in Spring 2026.

The figures mark a 0.5 percentage-point increase in English scores and a 1.1-point gain in math from the previous school year, when 48.8% of students met English standards and 37.3% were proficient in math.

But California remains below its pre-pandemic performance, when 50.9% of students met English language arts standards and 39.7% achieved proficiency in math in 2018-19.

The state spent about $134 billion on K-12 schools from all sources in 2025-26, or roughly $26,450 per student, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office. This year’s budget raises that to about $28,250 per student.

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1 posted on 10/19/2026 7:52:27 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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“Just 49.3% of students met or exceeded state English language arts standards in 2025-26, while only 38.4% reached proficiency in math, according to California’s latest test results released Thursday.”

I suspect these numbers are inflated............


2 posted on 10/19/2026 7:54:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: yesthatjallen

That’s exactly how democrats want their voters....dumb as rocks and can’t think for themselves.

So as far as they’re concerned it’s all going to plan.


3 posted on 10/19/2026 7:55:20 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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The figures mark a 0.5 percentage-point increase in English scores and a 1.1-point gain in math from the previous school year.

Yet I saw school officials all over the news raving, bragging about and patting themselves on the back about how the scores had improved so much.

4 posted on 10/19/2026 7:56:57 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: yesthatjallen

50% of all people have below average IQs.


5 posted on 10/19/2026 8:03:44 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: yesthatjallen

You don’t need the three Rs to be a socialist slave.


6 posted on 10/19/2026 8:05:18 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: yesthatjallen

Well the world needs ditch-diggers too.

https://youtu.be/eiRGRvE_Wqg


7 posted on 10/19/2026 8:13:53 AM PDT by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel.)
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To: fruser1

You don’t need the three Rs to be a socialist slave.
= = =

Just three Cs

CCCP


8 posted on 10/19/2026 8:16:04 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( My pronoun is EXIT. Generally full of /S -- Living with Havana Syndrome -infected from Main Stream)
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To: yesthatjallen

Teaching all that woke liberal stuff instead.


9 posted on 10/19/2026 8:16:48 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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Schools fail Whites and Asians by not teaching them as much as they are capable of learning. Schools fail blacks by passing the even if they can’t pass an exam.

What the schools ARE good at is rushing kids to the sex-change clinic and preventing their parents from hearing about it.


10 posted on 10/19/2026 8:17:46 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Blue Lives Matter! White lives matter. Remember Iryna Zarutska and Justine Damond.)
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majority of California students still can’t read or do math at grade level,

Interesting

We represent the 4th largest economy in the world and deliver 3rd world results....


11 posted on 10/19/2026 8:18:28 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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It’s not just Cali....


12 posted on 10/19/2026 8:19:29 AM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: I want the USA back
"Schools fail Whites and Asians by not teaching them as much as they are capable of learning. Schools fail blacks by passing the even if they can’t pass an exam."

PUBLIC Schools fail Whites and Asians by not teaching them as much as they are capable of learning. PUBLIC Schools fail blacks by passing them even if they can’t pass an exam.

Fixed that for you.

13 posted on 10/19/2026 8:20:19 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Trump II)
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“ 50% of all people have below average IQs.”
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I wonder where a person who scored a 50 PERCENTILE IQ in 1955 would fall if he/she took an IQ test among TODAY’S population? Maybe 57th or 58th percentile or more?

I’m certain he/she would because with the IQ makeup of recent decades’ immigrant populations and SUBSIDIZED/ENCOURAGED breeding by those Americans that fall toward the bottom of the IQ BELL CURVE, our American IQ bell curve as been relentlessly moving to the left.


14 posted on 10/19/2026 8:21:50 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: LastDayz

Unfortunately.


15 posted on 10/19/2026 8:30:13 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Jeff Chandler

Yeah, but the average in Humboldt County is pretty low to begin with.


16 posted on 10/19/2026 8:32:43 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: House Atreides

The move Idiocracy was a documentary, not a comedy. Plus the timeline in the movie was 500 years too late.


17 posted on 10/19/2026 8:32:55 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: yesthatjallen

Just take a look at what they’re importing. Between illegal immigrants and blacks there’s no questioning the stats.


18 posted on 10/19/2026 8:39:03 AM PDT by DownInFlames (p)
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Just take a look at what they’re importing. Between illegal immigrants and blacks there’s no questioning the stats.


19 posted on 10/19/2026 8:39:06 AM PDT by DownInFlames (p)
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To: yesthatjallen

Just take a look at what they’re importing. Between illegal immigrants and blacks there’s no questioning the stats.


20 posted on 10/19/2026 8:39:07 AM PDT by DownInFlames (p)
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