{"id":684,"date":"2012-06-29T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T22:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=684"},"modified":"2012-06-29T15:41:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T22:41:57","slug":"latest-graduation-data-reveal-an-ongoing-crisis-for-californias-highest-need-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/06\/29\/latest-graduation-data-reveal-an-ongoing-crisis-for-californias-highest-need-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Graduation Data Reveal an Ongoing Crisis for California\u2019s Highest Need Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/575261_2208957399038_1964753896_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-687\" title=\"575261_2208957399038_1964753896_n\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/06\/575261_2208957399038_1964753896_n-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>EdVocate West Blog<br \/>\nJune 19, 2012<\/div>\n<div>Written by: Arun Ramanathan<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">For the second year in a row, the California Department of Education (CDE) has released accurate and transparent graduation and dropout rate data thanks to the state\u2019s use of CALPADS, the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System. The data once again reveal that California\u2019s schools are graduating Latino, African-American, and low-income students at alarmingly low rates.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">The data show that three out of four (76%) of our state\u2019s students are graduating from high school in four years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">Sadly, the news is far worse for the state\u2019s African-American, Latino, and low-income students, who graduate from high school at abysmally low rates\u201463% and 70%, respectively.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">Education outcomes for students of color, students with disabilities, low-income students, and English learners, whose needs and potential are often overlooked, are particularly disturbing when compared with the graduation rates of their more advantaged peers. For example, California\u2019s white students graduate at a rate of 86% and Asian students at a rate of 90%.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">\u201cEven though these rates are improving, at the rate California is going, it will take us 13 years to close the graduation gap between Latino and African-American students and their white peers,\u201d said Arun Ramanathan, Executive Director of The Education Trust\u2014West, a statewide education civil rights organization. \u201cEvery high school dropout is an individual tragedy. Tens of thousands of dropouts represent a large scale-tragedy for the California economy and our state\u2019s future prosperity. It\u2019s time we stopped talking about this problem and invested in the strategies that top districts and schools are using to fix it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: small\">Learn more about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtrust.org\/west\/publication\/repairing-the-pipeline-a-look-at-the-gaps-in-californias-high-school-to-college-tra\">report<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EdVocate West Blog June 19, 2012 Written by: Arun Ramanathan For the second year in a row, the California Department of Education (CDE) has released accurate and transparent graduation and dropout rate data thanks to the state\u2019s use of CALPADS, the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System. The data once again reveal that California\u2019s schools &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/06\/29\/latest-graduation-data-reveal-an-ongoing-crisis-for-californias-highest-need-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Latest Graduation Data Reveal an Ongoing Crisis for California\u2019s Highest Need Students<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_research_ag"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}