It boasts one of the top performing public school districts in the country. It’s ranked as the best school district in all of California by the education website Niche, and it placed eighth nationally based on test scores, graduation rates, parent reviews, and other factors. Of course, Palo Alto is also the home of Stanford University, founders of giant Silicon Valley companies, professors, diplomats, computer scientists, you name it. But reformers in the district say that Palo Alto’s public schools, in fact, are a perfect mirror of the community, and they say that’s a problem.
LIZ BRIMHALL: Our honors classes look very different than our college prep level classes, and as educators, that is a deep concern that we all share.
CHAKRABARTI: That’s Liz Brimhall, a biology teacher at Palo Alto High School. She was speaking at a school board meeting at the beginning of this year. The problem she and others say is a pattern of what some call inequitable outcomes in education.
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