Pinellas County is the worst place in Florida to be black and go to public school | Failure Factories | Tampa Bay Times

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Pinellas County is the worst place in Florida to be black and go to public school | Failure Factories | Tampa Bay Times Why Pinellas County is the worst place in Florida to be black and go to public school By NATHANIEL LASH Times Staff Writer Aug. 12, 2015 Swipe or tap Click or press ↓ 1 Eighty-four percent of black elementary school students in Pinellas are failing state exams. 2 Almost every other county does better. 3 Only seven of Florida’s 67 counties do worse. All are poor, rural places. 4 Pinellas has four times as many students as all of them combined. 6 Pinellas was much better

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