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Stockton, Calif., targets bad data on dropouts
- 06-25-2010
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By Lesli A. Maxwell/Education Week
Most socioeconomic indicators in the midsize Central Valley city of Stockton, Calif., would point to a high school dropout problem more severe than it actually is. But, for the second straight year, the dropout rate in the 38,000-student district, where roughly 70 percent of students come from poor, Latino families, is expected to shrink, thanks to an aggressive effort to identify the students who have left high school, locate them, and lure them back—or cross them off the Stockton rolls if they’ve enrolled elsewhere. (more...)
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