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Literacy Passport rate. Of surrounding counties, Fauquier, Culpeper and Page counties apparently scored in the expected range.
Times Dispatch reporters Mollie Gore and William Ruberry, assisted- by Jacob VanBower Jr., chairman of the University of Richmond's mathematics and computer science department, had spent months analyzing data. They collected the full range of standardized test results for fourth, eighth and eleventh-graders for three school years from the 1992-93 school year through last year.
73.5%