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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Deploying a long-promised tool to track high school dropouts, the state released numbers Tuesday showing that one in four California students quit school in the 2006-07 school year, and one in three in Los Angeles. The rates are considerably higher than previously acknowledged but lower than some independent estimates.
For the state overall, it was 24.2%, up substantially from the 13.9% calculated for the previous school year using an older, discredited method. Statewide, 67.6% of students graduated and 8.2% were neither graduates nor dropouts. The last category included those who transferred to private schools or left the state.
For the Los Angeles Unified School District, the new dropout rate was 33.6%, changed from 25.3%.
Critics, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, have said that as many as half of Los Angeles Unified students drop out, based largely on a reverse reading of graduation numbers. On the other hand, a recent report by an independent research group, Policy Analysis for California Education, put the district's dropout rate at 25.7%.
O'Connell said he was particularly concerned by the latest figures for African American and Latino students. The state data show that 41.6% of black students and 30.3% of Latino students had dropped out in 2006-07, compared with 15.2% of white students and 10.2% of Asian students.
"This is a crisis," he said.</div>
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dr...0,1269326.story
This is really sad. Arnold needs to do something about our educational system. THIS IS A DEBACLE!!!!
For the state overall, it was 24.2%, up substantially from the 13.9% calculated for the previous school year using an older, discredited method. Statewide, 67.6% of students graduated and 8.2% were neither graduates nor dropouts. The last category included those who transferred to private schools or left the state.
For the Los Angeles Unified School District, the new dropout rate was 33.6%, changed from 25.3%.
Critics, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, have said that as many as half of Los Angeles Unified students drop out, based largely on a reverse reading of graduation numbers. On the other hand, a recent report by an independent research group, Policy Analysis for California Education, put the district's dropout rate at 25.7%.
O'Connell said he was particularly concerned by the latest figures for African American and Latino students. The state data show that 41.6% of black students and 30.3% of Latino students had dropped out in 2006-07, compared with 15.2% of white students and 10.2% of Asian students.
"This is a crisis," he said.</div>
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dr...0,1269326.story
This is really sad. Arnold needs to do something about our educational system. THIS IS A DEBACLE!!!!
