Posted on 12/17/2022 6:12:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The state of California and the Los Angeles Unified School District achieved record-high graduation rates last year despite the lingering effects of the crippling pandemic and a historic spike in student absences, prompting both praise and skepticism over the new numbers.
For the high school class that graduated in 2022, the percentage of students who earned a diploma in four years in Los Angeles Unified — the nation's second-largest school system — was 86%. The rate for all of California was 87.4%. The graduation figures were released this week.
For the state, this figure was a nearly 4 percentage point increase from the 83.6% rate of the 2020-21 academic year. For L.A. Unified, there was about a 4.5 percentage point increase from 81.6%, a continuation of an ongoing trend of annual graduation-rate increases.
L.A. schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho called the graduation rate "historic" and "precedent setting," and noted that, in general, the greatest gains were among Black students, students learning English and students with disabilities — groups with lower rates historically than white and Asian students.
"That means our teachers are delivering. Our principals are leading. The right support systems are in place," Carvalho said Thursday.
But others greeted the positive numbers with restraint.
"While I am pleased to see the data showing that students are doing well academically, it completely flies in the face of data that suggests students had fallen behind due to the pandemic," said Tyrone Howard, professor of education at UCLA's School of Education & Information Studies. "It would be good for LAUSD to help the public understand the two narratives and how they coexist... It is a big disconnect that is hard to comprehend."
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They probably just passed a ton of non educated, low IQ cholos and thugs.
Good luck in the world…
I would like to see if the individuals who are part of these graduation increases have at least the basic skills of literacy and mathematics. Or is that being white supremacist of me to ask about that?
They all reach a point where they will not learn anything more, and become more of a hazard in the classroom. So by graduating them, the school is moving these people along the assembly line of welfare life to the next station where some other government agency will be responsible for their well-being.
Yeah, they ‘graduated’, all right.
And an even more incredible 2% of them can actually read.
Forget about math.
It was a much smaller scale, but I saw it in public school in Wilmington DE.
Borderline retards graduated. It’s fine with me, as it’s obvious they would never learn and would become criminals.
“And an even more incredible 2% of them can actually read.
Forget about math.”
Exactly.
If you lower the bar down to the ground, everyone just walks across (kinda like the border).
My high school (in the 1960s) had a “non-diploma” group for those that would never pass the standard curricula (college, general, business). I was friends with one of them. Nice fellow, just not academically capable.
That's what I was thinking too. I'd guess a lot of them are at about the 6th grade level.
Former teacher. School administrations love high graduation numbers. That’s all you need to know. ; )
Home room was the worst “class”.
It included everyone in the grade, so ghetto retards too.
None of them were in my actual classes.
It’s amazing how a low percentage of people can ruin everything.
My old high school went from about 95% graduation rate in the 70’s to 20% in the 90’s. The demographics changed from American kids to kids from Mexico and El Salvador.
The recent graduation class cannot read, write or do basic math. So what has Ca. accomplished other than a bunch of ignorant welfare recipients?
They have diplomas they can NOT even read!! 80% of Graduates in LA Unified can NOT read, write or count above the third grade level, they Publicly ADMIT THIS!!!
IF there is grade school-—1st thru 6th-—
followed by middle school—7th—8th—9th-—
followed by high school-—10th—11th—12th—which the structure of the LA Unified District School System-—
THEY ARE SAYING that HIGH SCHOOL IS A 4 year effort???
AND—THAT effort only produced 86% ???
I CALL THAT FAILURE
I don’t know a single kid I ever went to school with that needed to repeat a grade.
Remember, you read this on da internet. It’s got to be true.
The State will release official results later this Fall. Please visit CAASPP Test Results for prior year results and new results once released.
It has been extensively reported that student achievement has declined nationwide since the pandemic based on recent results from a range of standardized assessments including the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and Measures of Academic Progress (MAP). These results indicate that the pandemic erased two decades of progress in math and reading.
“As anticipated, the preliminary state assessment results illustrate that there is no substitute for in-person instruction,” Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho said. “Los Angeles Unified is proactively addressing the decline in achievement performance, particularly in English language arts and mathematics, at all grade levels.”
When actual education has been thrown out for indoctrination with classes that only require you agree (environmentalism, global warming, lgbtqwtfism, grievance studies. Poor me I am a victim of white supremacy studies) every one will pass.
They are passed on. They graduate but cannot read and write and do math and no little real history.
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