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California science proficiency has plummeted with immigration (Calif. students rank 47th in science)
The Orange County Register ^ | May 10, 2012 | Fermin Leal

Posted on 05/13/2012 7:23:05 AM PDT by SteelToe

About 22 percent of California's eighth-graders tested on a national science test passed, ranking the Golden State among the worst in the nation, according to figures released Thursday.

Scores from the 2012 National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation's Report Card, show that too few students have the skills that could lead to careers in the field, educators said.

Nationally, 31 percent of eighth-graders tested scored proficient or advanced. Both the national and state scores improved slightly over scores from two years ago, the last time the test was administered.

The state ranked 47th, only above Mississippi, Alabama and the District of Columbia. But many local educators call into question the significance of the results, saying that the small sample size, and other factors can skew the results.

About 120,000 U.S. students were tested in the exams administered last school year, including about 14,000 in California out of the state's 470,000 eighth-graders. Scores were not broken down beyond the state level. In Orange County, fewer than 100 students typically take the test each year.

(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; grades; immigration
Liberals are not smart, they are a bunch of pseudo-philosophers who slap together big words to make themselves sound smarter. They talk a lot, but really say nothing.
1 posted on 05/13/2012 7:23:12 AM PDT by SteelToe
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To: Liz; AuntB

Is anybody surprised?


2 posted on 05/13/2012 7:36:30 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama and Company lied, the American economy died)
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To: SteelToe

No biggie. The jobs that require science profficiency have left the state at a faster rate than this drop.


3 posted on 05/13/2012 7:46:07 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: SteelToe

they will just have to broaden the category to include proficiency in: Fag history; Black and Womyn’s culture; and sex and drug experimentation. Fixed...now ranks close to the top.


4 posted on 05/13/2012 8:05:34 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: Mouton

They sure know how to make meth.


5 posted on 05/13/2012 8:12:08 AM PDT by Kozy (Calling Al Gore)
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To: SteelToe
Not much physics or chemistry required to jump a fence, join a gang, rob, murder, etc, etc......
6 posted on 05/13/2012 8:16:23 AM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: Feckless

But they do have the biology down to an art.....


7 posted on 05/13/2012 8:17:10 AM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: SteelToe

CA’s way to fix the problem . . .

Raise teachers’ salaries!

Spend more.


8 posted on 05/13/2012 8:17:10 AM PDT by Bertha Fanation
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To: SteelToe

Yep. And Hillary!s 2008 campaign ran on doing everything ‘smarter’. If Libs didn’t have the sycophant Media’s 100% support, they wouldn’t get elected at all. Libs are ‘smarter’???? Obama is the ‘smartest’ guy in any room???? Bwahahahhahaha!


9 posted on 05/13/2012 8:19:45 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: SteelToe

Most of the engineers in California universities, especially in advanced ones like UCLA, Stanford, USC and Caltech, are immigrants from China or India.


10 posted on 05/13/2012 8:42:48 AM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: All
US Dept of the Treasury Says Illegal Aliens Collecting Billions in Tax Credits According to the US Dept of Treasury’s Inspector General, more than $4.2 billion in additional child credits were paid out in 2010 to illegal immigrants. In 2005, the pay outs totaled $924 million. This program allows low income earners to claim a $1,000 per child credit. $20 billion EITC is estimated to have been paid out to these cunning "impoverished" illegals. Most of them are collecting over and over again-----using multiple identities-----falsifying official apps---claiming children they do not have and/or falsely stating kids are back in their homelands.

REFERENCE March 8, 2012 KENNER, La. -- Kenner police arrested illegal Marvin Baca who sold false W-2 forms to another illegal immigrant for $1,500. Baca sold fraudulent W-2 forms for $1,500 to other Hispanics here illegally.

Police said that on one of the forged W-2 forms had a SS no of a person living in Virginia. Police said illegal Hispanics purchase fictitious W-2 forms and file false tax returns with the government to receive EITC refunds. Baca was charged with one count of ID theft and two counts of forgery.

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The "just here for a better life" crowd who freely violate our borders and "do the jobs Americans won't do" have more criminal enterprises than you can shake a stick at.

<><> Hilderberto Salinas sold state drivers' licenses issued out of the state’s Motor Vehicle Agency in NJ to illegals with multiple identities who did not have the necessary id's....among 40 people who participated in the widespread ring. "Impoverished" illegals paid $2,500 to $7,000 apiece for the licenses.

<><>ICE's "documents and benefits fraud task force" found a common practice among "impoverished" illegals is to buy several faked identitues for several thousand dollars each----the illegal then votes and rides the US gravy train under several names. Jose Madrigal---the Washington state rapist---had some 30 identities.

<><>June 26, 2010 An illegal using multiple identities was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay back $3 million in fraudulently obtained unemployment compensation. Manuel Mejia Ordonez, got eight years for conspiracy to commit mail fraud........and identity theft.

<><> July 21, 2006----NJ BERGEN RECORD---Pelcastre brothers, Angel and Jorge, Dallas, Texas, were a walking threat to US national security, expert document forgers who, for a few thousand dollars, could give anyone a new identity, NJ L/E authorities said. The Texas brothers were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses----for any state in the US------ passports and resident alien cards, said state police.

The Texas brothers turned a NJ hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local NJ identity broker. Officers happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in a NJ hotel parking lot. The Texas brothers were followed to a NJ office supply store nearby where they purchased computer supplies. Officers then followed the Texans to a NJ storage facility in Secaucus, NJ, where the Texans loaded several boxes into a car. One of them stood lookout. After a search, police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs.

All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street when sold to "impoverished illegals." Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a NJ fake document broker for a shipment of 500 phony Social Security cards. ####

11 posted on 05/13/2012 9:49:17 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Clintonfatigued; AuntB; Tennessee Nana
They're too busy with Raza Studies ---- an anti-America agenda and its bloodthirsty plans to kill off US citizens:

One Raza Studies textbook titled “Occupied America,” by Rodolfo Acuña, includes a violent and blood- curdling speech given by university professor Jose Angel Gutierrez: “We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him,” (pg. 323).

This is taken directly from Occupied America (pg. 167): “Supporters would execute all white males over age 16,” (this is AKA the Plan of San Diego).

America-hating Raza Studies teach violence and undermining US ntl security----and preaches the need for Mexico to "re-take seven states in the Southwest...in order to make the SW a Chicano nation.

Course, if you oppose this, you are "heartless"....../s.

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Adelita Grijalva is the woman on the Arizona school board pimping La Raza/LULAC/Mecha/MALDEF indoctrination programs in Tuscon schools.

Adelita is all up in arms about Raza Studies getting tossed via the AZ state legislature's action...she is the daughter of Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-7) who was just narrowly re-elected to our US Congress.

Raul Grijalva is one of Mexico’s most productive and loyal representatives in our Congress....aiding and abetting building a Third World on US soil.

12 posted on 05/13/2012 9:53:11 AM PDT by Liz
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To: SteelToe

They talk a lot, but really say nothing.
Jay walkers from the Leno show indeed.


13 posted on 05/13/2012 10:35:43 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SteelToe

Add female study and minority majors to that list too.


14 posted on 05/13/2012 10:54:23 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: SteelToe

...and, they are asking for more money with less results.


15 posted on 05/13/2012 2:08:02 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: SteelToe
It is only 47th? I thought it would be the last of the 57 states — according to Dear Leader's math.
16 posted on 05/13/2012 3:48:41 PM PDT by MasterGunner01 (11)
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To: SteelToe

At least CA wasn’t 57 on the list.


17 posted on 05/13/2012 5:03:45 PM PDT by QT3.14 (Never Argue With A LIBERAL – They Will Drag You Down To Their Level, Then Beat You With Experience!)
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