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- 06-28-2010
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Column by By Dan Walters/Sacramento Bee
Let's assume, at least for the purposes of this screed, that the primary purpose of a public education system is to produce a maximum number of high school graduates prepared to either pursue higher education of some kind or enter the work force. By that standard, California is failing miserably, as Education Week magazine's new nationwide survey of high school graduation rates confirms. In 1996-97, Education Week calculated, 67.4 percent of California's high school students were graduating. That was 1.7 percentage points above the national average, with 19 other states having lower rates. (more...)
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