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The Rough Rider - April 27, 2009
By Cristina Camacho
Out of 100 ninth graders at Roosevelt, only 43 of you will graduate. Out of those 43, only 9 will complete the A-G requirements. From the graduates, 13 will go to a Community College, 6 will attend a CSU, and only 3 will make it to a UC. These are the statistics that are placed upon us year after year. The numbers in the California Educational Opportunity Report are practically the same every year, give or take a few students. This report is prepared every year by UCLA IDEA, the Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access, a research institute at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA. The purpose of these reports is to demonstrate the educational opportunities, such as qualified teachers, access to A-G classes, and sufficient textbooks for students, within School Districts in California.
When people think of Roosevelt, they see failure. They see a school that has yet to achieve success and that sends students out into the world unprepared and unaware of the resources available to them.
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