History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
October 6, 2009: IDEA director John Rogers quoted in La Opinión in a two-part story about drop out rates
War against the high school dropout rate
Drop out rates have been high for years. A prevention program attempts to try and reduce it.
By Rubén Moreno (text in Spanish)
If drop out rates in Los Angeles would take a human form, they'd likely have brown or black skin and they would live in the poorest areas of the city. Latinos and African American youth make up the great majority of students, who for various reasons, abandon Los Angeles schools and never graduate. In the last few decades, the drop out problem in Los Angeles Unified School District has turned into a crisis that instead of improving, remains unremitting. Latino and African American students add nearly nine of every 10 new cases of school abandonment in a district where for one out of every three students drops out.
To read full article, please visit:
http://www.impre.com/laopinion/noticias/primera-pagina/2009/10/5/guerra-al-abandono-escolar-152558-1.html
The drop out rate is a national ill
Each year 1.3 million students abandon school, putting at risk the country's economic welfare
By Rubén Moreno (text in Spanish)
More than 3.3 million students will be graduating from high school this school year in the United States, according to the National Center on Education Statistics. By the time you finish reading this story, at least six young people will have dropped out. At the end of the day, there will be 7,200; and tomorrow these statistics will repeat again. On average each year 1.3 million students drop out of school, one every 26 seconds, according to statistics provided by the Alliance for Excellent Education (AEE). The dropout rate goes beyond many of the challenges the individual student faces or the district he attends.
To read full article, please visit:
http://www.impre.com/laopinion/noticias/2009/10/6/la-desercion-es-una-mal-nacion-152693-1.html
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