LAUSD'S GRADUATION RATE: 44% DISTRICT 6TH WORST AMONG U.S. CITIES, NEW STUDY FINDS.
Just 44 percent of Los Angeles Unified students receive a high school diploma making the 727,000-student district's graduation rate among the lowest of large urban school districts, a national study released Tuesday found. ... The study, which looked at U.S. Department of Education graduation rates for the 2002-03 school year, found California's graduation rate to be about 71 percent, slightly better than the nationwide average.
The Los Angeles Unified School District can take pride in knowing that there are school systems out there that are worse than they are. Although the L.A.U.S.D. are trying to use the "new math" to prove that there may be more than 5 other school districts doing a worse job.
Of course the parents may not be as happy at seeing that the L.A.U.S.D. pays the highest teachers salaries in the country and has the lowest education rate in the country (there goes that new math again). Considering how high the taxes are in Los Angeles and California, it is frustrating to know that it would be cheaper to send your child to some third world country and you would know you are providing a better education at a fraction of the cost.
"We have a 50 percent dropout rate amongst our students," Schwarzenegger said. "The grades are bad. I don't think they're really creating there the future for California."
Actually, the school system is creating a future. A future of welfare and unemployment. Not the kind of future I would choose for myself. But evidently the kind of future the "teachers" and the government have chosen for the students currently in the "educational" system.
Here's an old-fashioned story problem for your loyal readers:
ReplyDeleteEducational levels in the year 2000, courtesy of the U.S. Census:
For population 25 years and over in Lancaster, California:
* High school or higher: 78.3%
* Bachelor's degree or higher: 15.8%
* Graduate or professional degree: 5.6%
* Unemployed: 11.2%
For population 25 years and over in Bozeman, Montana:
* High school or higher: 94.3%
* Bachelor's degree or higher: 49.5%
* Graduate or professional degree: 15.6%
* Unemployed: 9.5%
California spends 4 to 6 times as much per student as a typical school in Montana.
Which state is getting a better deal for their tax dollars??