The Hispanic drop out rate in Los Angeles is around 50%.
I don’t know about other cities, but that fact does not accord with the supposed priority of education — I wish it were otherwise, and the dropout rates were lower.
But facts are facts.
Source for the 50% figure here:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7288144/
An article on FR some months ago quoted Hispanic dropout rates all over the country at fifty per-cent. Kids were polled and gave three main reasons for leaving school: Peer pressure, no money/jobs at home, and something else which I can’t recall, maybe social mores/culture. (it wasn’t that English only classes were too difficult.) The thrust of the article was a discussion of bilingual education, Hispanic dropout rates, and cost.