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California Department of Education News Release
Release: #09-3
January 9, 2009
Contact: Ioannis Kazanis
E-mail: communications@cde.ca.gov
Phone: 916-319-0818

State Schools Chief Jack O'Connell Visits Los Angeles Area
School to Discuss Impact of Proposed Budget on Public Education

SAN GABRIEL — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell held a news conference today with local educators at McKinley Elementary School in San Gabriel to highlight the impact of the state's budget crisis on education.

"Already, many families have felt the brunt the national economic crisis and the state's abysmal fiscal situation is only compounding their misery," O'Connell said. "The cuts to schools and state services proposed in the Governor's budget only serve to make an awful situation worse." 

Joining O'Connell at the event were Darline Robles, superintendent of the Los Angeles County Office of Education; Susan Parks, superintendent of the San Gabriel Unified School District; and Anna Molinar, principal of McKinley Elementary School.

"The Governor's budget proposal to slash funding for schools by a staggering $6 billion is a crippling move to public education in California," O'Connell said. "His call to defer nearly $3 billion in payments due to schools early this year would create a cash-flow crisis for our schools. I am also adamantly opposed to his proposal to reduce the school year by five days. To close the achievement gap and prepare our students for success in the competitive global economy, we should be talking about making the school year longer, not shorter. I strongly encourage the Governor and the Legislature to find a resolution to this budget crisis that keeps students in school and does not affect the quality of the education they are receiving."

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Jack O'Connell — State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Communications Division, Room 5206, 916-319-0818, Fax 916-319-0100

Understanding High School Graduation Rates

Graduation rates are a fundamental indicator of whether or not the nation’s public school system is doing what it is intended to do: enroll, engage, and educate youth to be productive members of society. In today’s increasingly competitive global economy, graduating high school is a critical step towards securing a good job and a promising future. Yet nationally, one-third of our students—about 1.2 million each year—leave high school without a diploma, and graduation rates for poor and minority students are even lower. The failure to graduate every child prepared for the 21st century has serious consequences for both individual students and the rest of American society. Yet, the unacceptably low graduation rates of America’s youth have been obscured for far too long by inaccurate data, misleading calculations and reporting, and flawed accountability systems.  

Nationally, and for each state, Understanding High School Graduation Rates illustrates the discrepancies in graduation rates reported by government and independent sources, examines why this is important, and describes three core policy areas that are fundamental to calculating, reporting, and improving accurate graduation rates:

·      Use of common, accurate graduation rate calculations

·      Statewide data system that track individual student data from the time students enter the educational system until they leave it

 

Policies that meaningfully holds high schools accountable for improving student achievement on test scores and increasing graduation rates so that low-performing students are not unnecessarily held back or encouraged to leave school without a diploma.

 

To see California report:

http://www.all4ed.org/publications/wcwc/California_wc.pdf

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