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California's dropout problem


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California's dropout problem
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A state senator offers a package of bills that could help keep in
school some of the 150,000 kids who drop out each year.


July 17 2007

CALIFORNIA'S CHILDREN are abandoning school at the rate of about
150,000 a year — a number equivalent to the population of Torrance, or
Irvine, or all of Imperial County. Fewer than 70% of ninth-graders statewide
will graduate from high school, and in some districts the percentage
drops to less than half. Shockingly, this is not particularly a problem
for schools, which are ranked primarily on their test scores. If
marginal students leave, it only helps their averages.

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