The reading scores for elementary students are just above the state average.

The school also had the lowest reading scores in the city.

Many principals want to put children who are difficult in special education so they will not bring down a school's reading scores.

Its school children had the lowest reading score in the state.

But their reading scores were no better than in 1980.

Average reading scores at her school rose by 22 percent from 1997 to 1998, the report found.

And for many years, the district's reading scores were the worst in the city.

Those schools have been given extra resources in an effort to bring up their reading scores.

About 15 percent left after the first year (though the school had the highest reading scores in District 30).

Many educators fear that the drive for better reading scores may be part of the problem.