A new report shows that the achievement gap between white students and African American and Latino students in California will take years to narrow

In 2009 there was a gap of 27 percentage points between fourth-grade white students and African American students, and a gap of 22 percentage points between white and Latino students in math. There also was a 28 percentage point gap between white and African American fourth-graders in reading. A report issued by the Center on Education Policy says that if nothing changes, it will take 35 years to close the reading achievement gap between white and African American students and 29 years for Latino students to catch up.