How Does This Happen In The People's Republik?

If this is the "progress" that so-called progressives want, count me out:

The state Department of Education deemed more than 61 percent of California students socioeconomically disadvantaged in 2018 as schools continued to lag in English and mathematics, according to a Thursday report on the state’s public education system.

The department updated its California School Dashboard to reflect that schools maintained test scores just below the standard in English and worse in mathematics, marking continued substandard testing from last year.

How can Shangri-La have 61% of its students be “socioeconomically disadvantaged”? Are the unicorn farts with which we pay for all our social benefits not fixing all the state’s problems?