California High School Dropout Rate Tops 18 Percent

August 12, 2011 12:15 PM

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SACRAMENTO (AP) — A new study says three out of four California students graduated high school last year but a significant number of blacks, Hispanics and English learners failed to complete their schooling.

The California Department of Education says 74.4 percent of those who started high school in 2006 graduated in 2010 while the statewide dropout rate was 18.2 percent.

The dropout rate fell from 2009 and graduation rates were up but specific comparisons aren’t possible because the latest study is based on new methodology.

Another 7.4 percent of students were still in school or in non-diploma programs for the disabled, or they left school by taking the GED test.

Nearly 90 percent of Asians and about 83 percent of whites graduated, compared to only 68 percent of Hispanics, 59 percent of blacks and 56 percent of students who are learning English.

Tyrone Jenkins

“Nearly 90 percent of Asians and about 83 percent of whites graduated, compared to only 68 percent of Hispanics, 59 percent of blacks and 56 percent of students who are learning English.”

Its a cultural problem, nobody wants to say it, but that’s what it is.
M

Exactly. God forbid people be honest and stop making excuses for failure.
SpeakUp

Good!! Pretty soon you will have illiterates doing our jobs, Living on Welfare, blaming Gov’t for failing to provide them with Jobs, more crime because they can’t find jobs.

Lower the standards of education system, face the consequences.
What was that?? “Stop Spanking your Kids, it demoralizes them?” .. these dropouts are result of lack of parental discipline because the Govt’ wants to tell parents how to raise the child.

This country is already going downhill with education system. Pretty soon we will end up in slums!!
Cal

Why would the 68% of Hispanics, 59% of Blacks, or the 56% of English language learners care if they graduate or not? They already have a built in job waiting for them with the state of CA.
kdub

Yep, Asians native language isn’t English, and they are smoking everyone in Academics. Why, because they study and work hard at succeeding in school. Evrybody else is too busy blaming everybody else for their shortcomings. and trying to be cool.