The path to higher education is gruelling. Not noted on a student’s GPA is a laundry list of unseen efforts — the late nights devoted to study sessions, the sacrifice
Lori Whitesell was troubled by the Santa Monica-Malibu school district’s system for calculating grade-point averages, finding it unfair to students who retake classes to get better marks.
And when
Black and Hispanic students in Santa Monica-Malibu schools rank behind their peers on a variety of achievement measures, and officials say they are working to narrow gaps that are mirrored
