Sunday, July 27, 2008
In Our Schools - I guess it depends who is counting
Don't you want to know how the state's dropout numbers are so different from these?
I do...
I do...
In the Sacramento Bee, Deb Kollars reports:
"A new statewide count of high school dropouts, based on the tracking of individual students, shows significantly higher numbers than have been reported for years in California.
The dropout report, released Wednesday by the California Department of Education, estimated that one in four high school students - 24.2 percent - failed to graduate with their classes or move into another educational program to continue their high school education. The estimates were derived from data from the 2006-07 school year.
By contrast, the state claimed a 13.9 percent four-year dropout rate for the prior year."
