The academic achievement gap between black and white public school students in St. Louis and St. Louis County remains stubbornly wide

At 25 school districts, black students again scored lower than white students on 2008's state standardized tests, says the fourth-annual report from the St. Louis Black Leadership Roundtable, which aims to eliminate the disparity between black and white student achievement. The gap generally widened among elementary and high school students from 2007 to 2008.