Report: 70% California High School Students Will Never Achieve 4-Year Degree
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A new study has found that 70 percent of ninth graders in California will never achieve a bachelor’s degree, though only 10 percent of them expect to not graduate from a four-year college.
The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) found that 85 percent of California parents want their child to obtain a college degree, and 90 percent of children entering high school in the ninth grade expect to achieve a bachelor’s degree from a four-year college.
PPIC found that despite massive increases in educational spending, poor academic preparation and social promotion are the main reasons California high school graduates have only a 30 percent college graduation rate.
For every 1,000 California ninth graders, only 823 will ever graduate from high schools:
- 282 will enroll in a four-year college, and 362 will attend a two-year community college;
- 145 will eventually transfer from a two-year community college to a 4-year college; and
- 305 will eventually achieve a four-year college bachelor’s degree.
The State of California will spend $92.5 billion for K–12 education programs during the 2017-2018 school year. That works out to about $15,521 per student, up 66 percent in the last 5 years, from $9,370 per student in 2012-2013.
PPIC found most of California’s high school graduates are not “academically prepared” for college. Only 45 percent of high school students that graduated in 2016 had completed the “A-G” core college preparatory courses that are required for freshman consideration to the California State University and the University of California.
Even California high school graduates that met the academic requirements tended to perform poorly as college students. Of the California high school graduates that successfully passed the first college preparatory math course, “34 percent did not take the next one — even though 13 percent earned an A and 22 percent a B in the class.”
Close to 20 percent of community college students that were deemed academically prepared by passing the A-G classes in California high schools were “directed toward developmental — remedial — courses, which have been shown to slow progress” toward achieving a four-year bachelor’s degree.
The ineffectiveness of California high school A-G classes to prepare students for the rigors of college was also found to be correlated to “social promotion,” the practice of promoting a student to the next grade level regardless of skill mastery in the belief that it will promote self-esteem. PPIC estimated that eliminating social promotion would increase the percentage of students that were academically prepared for college classes by 18 percentage points.
Eliminating social promotion would reduce racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in student outcomes. PPIC stated that social promotion tends to explain why minorities tend to “drop off the pathway at every stage” toward achieving a bachelor’s degree.
PPIC found that the difference in math completion rates between the highest performing high school group, Asian Americans, and the lowest performing, African Americans, more than doubles by graduation. At the California State University, 35 percent of African Americans drop out in their first 2 years, versus only 19 percent of Asian Americans.
PPIC estimates that addressing high school social promotion problems would translate into 28 percent more community college transfers to four-year colleges, and 16 percent more California ninth graders eventually earning a bachelor’s degree.
Adios, California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner
Legislation" passes the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil
disobedience movement will emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with
the immigrant civil rights and "Immigrant
Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either form a new political
party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing Democratic Party. The next
and final steps would follow and that is to elect our own governors of all the
states within Aztlan."
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.
ILLEGALS
& WELFARE
70% OF
ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In
The United States.
“According
to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican
illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
CIS
So when cities across the country declare that they will NOT be
sanctuary, guess where ALL the illegals, criminals, gang members fleeing ICE
will go???? straight to your welcoming city. So ironically the people fighting
for sanctuary city status, may have an unprecedented crime wave to deal with
along with the additional expense.
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$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
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$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary
school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word
of English.
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$22 billion is spent on (AFDC) welfare to illegal aliens each
year.
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$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as (SNAP) food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal
aliens.
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$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Does
not include local jails and State Prisons.
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2012 illegal aliens sent home $62 BILLION in remittances back to
their countries of origin. This is why Mexico is getting involved in
our politics.
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$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are
caused by the illegal aliens.
*
Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In
The United States.
OPEN
BORDERS:
IT'S ALL
ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND PASSING ALONG
THE
ILLEGALS' WELFARE AND CRIME COSTS TO THE AMERICAN
MIDDLE
CLASS!
“That Washington-imposed policy of
mass-immigration floods the
market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by
blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million
marginalized Americans and
their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.” ---- NEIL MUNRO
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