<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!!!!
42%!? That is absolutely massive. Around where I live I could see published numbers of a 10% drop out rate considered an epidemic.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Princess Shake @ Jul 16 2008, 09:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yama is proof of that.</div> True dat
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Princess Shake @ Jul 16 2008, 09:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yama is proof of that.</div> I bet I am smarter than you, Princess.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Legacy @ Jul 17 2008, 12:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Princess Shake @ Jul 16 2008, 09:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yama is proof of that.</div> I bet I am smarter than you, Princess. </div> Easy there cowgirl. No need hurt yourself typing all those words.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Princess Shake @ Jul 16 2008, 11:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Legacy @ Jul 17 2008, 12:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Princess Shake @ Jul 16 2008, 09:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yama is proof of that.</div> I bet I am smarter than you, Princess. </div> Easy there cowgirl. No need hurt yourself typing all those words. </div> Your the one in pain, Princess Shake. You are Canadian, therefore, I am automatically smarter.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Legacy @ Jul 17 2008, 12:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Princess Shake @ Jul 16 2008, 11:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Legacy @ Jul 17 2008, 12:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Princess Shake @ Jul 16 2008, 09:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yama is proof of that.</div> I bet I am smarter than you, Princess. </div> Easy there cowgirl. No need hurt yourself typing all those words. </div> Your the one in pain, Princess Shake. You are Canadian, therefore, I am automatically smarter. </div> I'm not in pain at all. So, I see you failed math, because me being Canadian, doesn't equal you being smarter. Ask any math professor.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Legacy @ Jul 16 2008, 11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Princess Shake @ Jul 16 2008, 11:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Legacy @ Jul 17 2008, 12:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Princess Shake @ Jul 16 2008, 09:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yama is proof of that.</div> I bet I am smarter than you, Princess. </div> Easy there cowgirl. No need hurt yourself typing all those words. </div> Your the one in pain, Princess Shake. You are Canadian, therefore, I am automatically smarter. </div> You're*
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Voodoo Child @ Jul 16 2008, 11:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Legacy @ Jul 16 2008, 11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Princess Shake @ Jul 16 2008, 11:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Legacy @ Jul 17 2008, 12:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Princess Shake @ Jul 16 2008, 09:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yama is proof of that.</div> I bet I am smarter than you, Princess. </div> Easy there cowgirl. No need hurt yourself typing all those words. </div> Your the one in pain, Princess Shake. You are Canadian, therefore, I am automatically smarter. </div> You're* </div> Man, I knew some one would point that out.
My local HS had a graduation rate of 48% lol. Of the kids who I hung out with in junior high, literally one graduated (the other 10 or so guys dropped out or got expelled and go to "continuation school"). As much as I hated it at the time its probably good I went to private HS. BTW yeah I live in California, and my best friend from 2nd through 7th grade also dropped out but hes been living in Texas the last few years.
