Posted on 12/19/2018 1:21:20 PM PST by Red Badger
California ranks No. 1 among the 50 states for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed ninth grade and 50th for the percentage who have graduated from high school, according to new data from the Census Bureau.
Texas ranks No. 2 for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed ninth grade and 49th for the percentage who have graduated from high school.
9.7 percent of California residents 25 and older, the Census Bureau says, never completed ninth grade. Only 82.5 percent graduated from high school.
8.7 percent of Texas residents 25 and older never completed ninth grade, and only 82.8 percent graduated from high school.
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More proof that it is now a colony of Mexico.
The city buses in Houston included pre-recorded messages in Spanish telling passengers “this” is where to get off for welfare.
It used to be a province.
Maybe still is........................
Stupid dipsh*ts will vote Rat party every time.
I have a 10th grade education and two years of college....
Great. Now give us the demographic breakdown.
Steve Sailer at Unz.com likes to point out when it comes to socioeconomic indicators like this states closer to Canada do better than other areas. /src on/I wonder why???/src off/
CA and TX - due to the great number of illegals.
Yep. You’ll notice that border states, CA TX NM AZ, are all in the top seven.
The entire once-Golden-State is most safely viewed in one's rear view mirror.
Doesn’t take much head scratching to conclude that these numbers reflect the host state’s parasite population.
How bad would the state be if 100%
Of the High School Graduates from the Public School System in Los Angeles, more than 75% can NOT read, write or count beyond the 3rd grade level, but they all can put on a condom in the dark.
There are millions of Mexicans in California who arrived here with less than 4 years of education. In Mexico most parents take their kids out of school as soon as the kid is big enough to work.
Direct correlation with percentage of illegals.
“Yet for some reason, most of the country looks to California for educational policy, practice, and curriculum....”
When I graduated in 1974, CA was ranked #1 in the nation based on test scores.
My, how quickly things change.
Reagan to reprobates in less than two decades.
THIS news breaks my heart. When I was a kid back in the early fifties we were so proud of our State, our city (Long Beach), because we were the number one city in the number one State when it came to education. We were number one in everything except size thanks to Texas. Loved it when Alaska became a State, and the Texans couldn’t crow about it anymore.
SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH! It’s why Democrats are a dirty word in our house. Always despised them.
California’s a third world hellhole - lots of poor ignorant members of the servant class and a small percentage of ultra educated ‘elites’ who live like pigs on LSD...
Illegal aliens would be why.
You mean they are not PHD’s, engineers and Doctors clamoring to get in?............
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