By Melanie Young, KALW Crosscurrents
With the start of a new school year, families all around San Francisco are sending their children off with hopes for a good year and a bright future. But according to Carolina Guzman with the nonprofit Mission Economic Development Agency, children in the Mission District struggle on every rung of the education ladder. She says half the children entering kindergarten are not prepared to learn.
“They don’t know their figures, colors, letters,” she said. “So that’s a big problem.”
The problems continue as the children advance through school.
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