By Sharon Noguchi
When it comes to educating Latino, African-American and poor students, Bay Area school districts do at best a mediocre job, according to a report published Tuesday by an Oakland-based education advocacy group.
The Vallejo City Unified School District earned an overall grade of D. And though overall improvement among students of color and low-income students fell to a D from a C last year, the district did improve the size of the achievement gap between black and white students (from a D to a C) and between Latino and whites (from a C to a B).
In Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa counties, seven districts earned a D-plus, the average for the four counties. Seven districts earned a D. San Jose Unified — which has a 52 percent Latino and 3 percent black population — was among them.