Persistently low achieving schools in the bay area, and what they hvae in common with the book, Savage inequalities

I have researched persistently low-achieving schools in the bay area, to find what these schools have in common with the schools in East St. Louis. From what I gathered, not many schools in the bay area are suffering the way the schools in East St. Louis are. I have found no high crime rates near the schools with low graduation rates, and no local playgrounds with conditions so bad that led cannot be extracted from the soil. I have found no articles talking about an endless sub rotation. Yet i have attended high schools that have not been able to keep the same good teachers for too long since the teachers were offered higher pay and benefits where schools could afford them. My personal experience with subs in and out of high school instead of one constant teacher is this; when a good teacher, a one who cares for students he or she got to know personally, leaves for a better job, a sub comes in and the work is easier or harder to understand because of the disconnect from the students. The sub doesn't care as much as a well paid teacher. Students can adapt over time if the new teacher stays longer then the old, but with endless subs, there is no relationship. having no connection to the teacher, i have personally found it harder to stay active in the class So although i have found no extreme articles on our bay area schools, that doesn't mean they have nothing in common.

Another thing i searched for to compare the schools with, was a link between school materials, and the low graduation rates. I came to no conclusion to that link but it is a huge issue that hits close to home. To me  it does sound like common sense that  poor minority students lacking aid in common materials for school would have a harder time graduating, let alone getting by. I found a article about a school just in Oakland that had much in common with the schools in East St. Louis. Its pretty hard to study in a classroom with no paper, books, lab equipment etc. Schools in the bay area are very close to a lack of these materials just like the students in the book 'Savage Inequalities'. This Oakland school called Coliseum College Prep Academy  has an online article written about one classroom alone. The article read "They didn't have white-board markers to use in the classroom ,the school couldn't replace the broken bulb in their class projector , and they realized their teacher was spending her own money to provide students with necessary resources like paper and pens" -   http://www.generationcitizen.org/stories/story/lack-of-school-supplies-impeding-learning-in-oakland/  

Lastly, what I found  most common between the persistently low achieving schools in the bay area, and the ones in East St. Louis, were the type of students that kept getting low test scores and high drop out or low graduation rates. They  were minority and  poor students. These students and schools overall have shown no sign's of improvement over the years. These schools may be in desperate need of govt help. How the schools get money for the students is very unfair and relates to 'Savage inequalities' in many ways. With a lack of materials being supplied, poorer students have a hard time getting them for themselves, leaving them at a disadvantage. Having these disadvantages are applied when the students have to take placement and state tests. The schools with higher scores get more funding. Like rewarded for good behavior. and the minorities are being punished for bad.