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Milestones scores tied to poverty

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July 26, 2019

The analysis shows that school performance on the Georgia Milestones tests is related to the proportion of students who come from economically disadvantaged households. The dots represent schools; hover over them to see the details.

AJC Newsroom Data Specialist Anila P. Yoganathan contributed to this report.

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Jennifer Peebles is a newsroom data specialist at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, helping reporters find and tell stories with government data (and sometimes documents, too).

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