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Low-performing schools are also more likely to have higher numbers of underprepared teachers. In 2001–02, schools with the lowest Academic Performance Index (API) scores had, on average, 21 percent underprepared teachers, compared with only 5 percent in the highest-achieving schools. This is a slight improvement from previous years, when the lowest-achieving schools had even higher proportions of underprepared teachers.

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