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Struggling With English, From Kindergarten to High School Graduation

KQED News Staff

May 22, 2015 at

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It's getting close to high school graduation time. In California, English language learners are less likely to graduate than almost every other group: barely two-thirds of them make it. Surprisingly, about 80 percent of English learners in California high schools have been here for most of their school years.

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