"Path Not Found": Report Says Low-income Students Lack Computer Access

The Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI) has released a report titled a "Path Not Found" that chronicles the lack of computer classes available to lower-income students and students of color in California high schools.

"The report finds the higher a school's percentage of underrepresented students of color, the lower the likelihood of a school offering any computer science courses whatsoever."

Nearly 75 percent of high schools with the highest percentages of underrepresented students of color offer no computer science courses, and 75 percent of high schools with the highest numbers of low-income students offer no computer science courses.

This is during a time when the tech industry is booming, and the country's demographics are shifting. "Last fall, for the first time in history, students of color made up the majority of first graders nationwide," according to the report.

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