August 12, 2011 at 1:53pm 18 notes
californiaeducation
Source: Los Angeles Times
California reports eighth-grade dropout rate for first time: A new system that tracks every public school student finds that about 3.5% of eighth-graders — 17,257 in all — left school and didn’t return for ninth grade. The high school dropout rate is 18.2%. Photo: Students listen to their instructor in an eighth-grade class in Burbank. Credit: Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times

California reports eighth-grade dropout rate for first time: A new system that tracks every public school student finds that about 3.5% of eighth-graders — 17,257 in all — left school and didn’t return for ninth grade. The high school dropout rate is 18.2%.

Photo: Students listen to their instructor in an eighth-grade class in Burbank. Credit: Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times

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    Scary statistics on drop out rates.
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