Least-Educated State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older Who Never Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School Graduates
NANCY PELOSI’S VISION OF AMERICA: 49 MORE MEXIFORNIAS AND
A 50 STATE EXPANDED ANCHOR BABY WELFARE STATE
"Most
Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services
deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on
their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much
of a drain illegal immigration has become." FAIR President
Dan Stein
College-Grad Salaries Eroded by Hidden Army of
1.5 Million Visa-Workers
Every
CEO in every company sees the business opportunity: Will I earn higher profits
by replacing my American staff with cheaper H-1B workers? The answer is an
obvious yes.
The
Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via mass-immigration
shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the
market with foreign labor. That process spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by
blue-collar and white-collar employees. The policy 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.
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of 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.
CALIFORNIA and
the RISE OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST WELFARE STATE
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/they-invading-horde-waving-their.html
Accounting for these differences reveals that California's
real poverty rate is 20.6 percent – the highest in
America, and nearly twice the national average of 12.7 percent.
"The public schools indoctrinate their young
charges to hate this country and the rule of law. Illegal aliens
continue overwhelming the state, draining California’s already depleted
public services while endangering our lives, the rule of law, and public safety
for all citizens."
California must
stem the flow of illegal immigrants
The state
should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits, deploy
the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize 'sanctuary'
cities.
“Illegal
immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters,
millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive
overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that
illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost
taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist
Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a
'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."
SOCIALISM
AND THE DEMS’ LA RAZA SUPREMACY WELFARE STATE ON OUR BACKS
PELOSI’S
OPEN BORDERS MEXIFORNIA where La Raza loots first!
7 OUT OF
10 ILLEGALS ON WELFARE!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/12/mexifornia-where-mexico-loots-first-7.html
What is
the true cost of all the Democrat Party’s “cheap” labor?
*
No Justice for Taxpaying Americans
By Howie Carr
But the real double standard kicks in when the undocumented Democrat gets to the courtroom. A taxpaying American can only dream of the kid-gloves treatment these Third World fiends get.
By Howie Carr
But the real double standard kicks in when the undocumented Democrat gets to the courtroom. A taxpaying American can only dream of the kid-gloves treatment these Third World fiends get.
Illegal
aliens continue overwhelming the state, draining California’s already depleted
public services while endangering our lives, the rule of law, and public safety
for all citizens. Arthur Schaper
The costs of illegal
immigration are being carefully hidden by Democrats. MONICA SHOWALTER
Data: 98K Illegal Aliens Graduating from U.S. High Schools Every Year
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/28/data-98k-illegal-aliens-graduating-from-u-s-high-schools-every-year/
2:21
Nearly 100,000 illegal alien teenagers are graduating from American high schools every year, new research concludes.
The latest study from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) reveals the growing number of illegal alien teenagers who are enrolled and graduating from U.S. high schools. Researchers find that about 98,000 illegal aliens every year graduate from high schools across the country.
Close to 30,000 of those illegal aliens, annually, are graduating from high schools in the sanctuary state of California which has the largest illegal alien population, totaling at least 2.2 million. About 27 percent of all illegal aliens graduating high school every year are doing so in California, researchers found.
Similarly, in Texas and Florida, each with significant foreign-born and illegal populations, have thousands of illegal alien high school graduates every year. In Texas, about 17,000 illegal aliens graduate from high school every year while Florida graduates about 5,000 illegal alien high schoolers annually.
New York, New Jersey, and Illinois each graduate about 4,000 illegal aliens from high school every year. Overall, 15 states are home to more than 80 percent of all illegal alien high school graduates.
As Breitbart News recently reported, current illegal immigration levels could bring more than one million child border crossers to the United States before the 2020 presidential election, researcher Steven Kopits has detailed.
Every year, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million illegal and legal immigrants, with more than 70 percent arriving through the process known as “chain migration,” where newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country. In 2017, the foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5 million.
By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Pollak: Educating Illegal Aliens and Their Children Costs L.A.
Schools Hundreds of Millions Per Year
18 Jan 2019164
3:03
The ongoing strike by the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union
against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is about teacher pay,
classroom size, support staff, and especially charter schools, which the union
says take money away from the district.
Left unspoken, however, is the cost of educating illegal aliens,
and their children — which could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars per
year, if not billions, experts say.
Steven A. Camarota, director of research, at the Center for
Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News on Friday that “between one-fifth and
one-fourth of the students in LAUSD are the children of illegal immigrants —
though most of those were born in the U.S.” He said that a smaller percentage
of the students (“in the single digits”) are illegal immigrants themselves.
With
roughly 700,000
students in
the district, at a cost of over $13,000
per student,
that means the district could be spending about $1.8 billion annually on
educating the children of illegal immigrants. The total annual expenses for the
LAUSD in 2017-2018 amounted to $7.52 billion.
The
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) put the cost of educating the
children of illegal aliens statewide at over $12 billion in a 2014 study. A significant proportion of
those students are served by the LAUSD.
Twenty years before, with a much lower population of illegal
aliens, the U.S. General Accounting Office — in a study prepared for then-Sen.
Barbara Boxer (D-CA) estimated that California spent $1.6 billion on educating
the children of illegal aliens. The cost has increased almost tenfold as the
“undocumented” population has grown.
The exact
numbers are elusive, but even a conservative estimate would put the costs of
educating the children of illegal aliens in the LAUSD in the same ballpark as
the costs of charter schools, which unions complain cost the district some
$600 million per year in lost funding.
The U.S.
Supreme Court held in Plyler
v. Doe (1982)
that students could not be denied a free public education on the basis of their
immigration status.
However, the continued arrival of illegal aliens has arguably
strained the public education system — and will continue to do so unless the
country’s borders are secured.
Yet no one in L.A. seems to be discussing the problem.
Joel
B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the
2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author
of How
Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from
Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
HISPANIC EDUCATION GAP
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/10/why_the_hispanic_education_gap.html
An
article published by the Pew Research Center authored by Jens Manuel Krogstad,
titled "5
Facts about Latinos and Education," states,
"Hispanic dropout rate remains higher than that of Blacks, Whites, and
Asians." This hit home for me, because virtually no one else in
my family has a degree – college or otherwise.
Being
Hispanic, I find it nearly impossible to avoid hearing my own culture being
talked about in the media – especially now that DACA, the border wall, and
Trump are all being discussed, often in one sentence. The one thing
that is rarely talked about is our education system and how Hispanics keep
falling behind. The relationship between our culture and the
educational system needs restructuring.
Hispanic-Americans
are growing in numbers and in cultures. I use the term
"cultures" because Hispanics come in all races and backgrounds, and
because of this, they also have their own varying sets of traditions and
values. Latinos desire an education, but their actions do not
correlate with their aspirations. They want an education but do not
do what is necessary to obtain it. Hispanics are the
majority-minority group in America, yet they have the lowest level of
educational attainment of any major demographic slice of the
U.S. Latinos who do not come from an independent educational
tradition are the ones who get hurt.
There
is a disconnect between our society and our cultural beliefs. Most
Hispanics of my acquaintance understand the importance of getting an education,
but only in so far as it leads to immediate earnings to help take care of the
family. Often these two goals are in conflict, and families will
choose jobs over education. For many Hispanics, including me, a
drive for educational achievement was never something our families cared to
instill. My mother expressed the importance of learning another
language and going to school but always enforced getting a job and helping
support the family as the first priority.
As
the Pew article touched on, Latinos dream of going to college and often do, but
their culture does not push them toward it. Hispanics are told
things like: "That's not for you" or "You have to find a spouse
and have kids and raise them." Rarely are we told things like "Go
after your education." The few that do break from the cycle and
go to college run into a plethora of problems, ranging from the micro-fiduciary
issues to the macro-family issues.
Growing
up, I was always in competition with my cousin Joe, from elementary to high
school. We lived in the same household, and would compare
grades. I always felt inferior. Joe was always making the
grades I could not and reading books beyond his grade level. He
would often go above and beyond with his assignments to ensure an A in every
class. Joe had a thirst for knowledge, and anyone who spoke to him
instantly knew he was going to make something of himself. While he
was a shoe-in for a prestigious college, I would be lucky to get accepted
anywhere.
It
came as a big shock to my family and me when Joe dropped out of high
school. He dropped out because he was bored with the education he
was receiving and it felt like a waste of his time, getting something that
would not mean anything. He later decided to obtain his GED so he
could gain entry into a college for a real education.
Our
high school education system is not challenging our bright minds, but is
instead leading them into a vicious cycle of mediocrity. Over the
years, I found college banal and easy, not because I studied and changed my
ways, but because I took easy courses and easy professors who would help me
obtain that "piece of paper." As I moved up from freshman
to junior year, I noticed a steady decline in grades once I found myself in
more rigorous courses. I fell more and more behind when compared to
my peers. Subsequently, at the community college, my cousin was
bored with the same mediocre teaching methods that caused him to drop out of
high school. Therefore, it came as no surprise when he again dropped
out of school.
REALITY
CHECK: MEXICANS WHO JUMP OUR BORDERS AND THEIR ANCHOR BABIES LOATHE ENGLISH AND
LITERACY AND HAVE TURNED CA'S LOWER EDUCATION INTO THE WORST IN THE NATION!
"FOR ITS PART, Just
Communities claims its trainings are aimed at closing what it
characterizes as an achievement gap between Latino and white students."
Here’s one teacher’s
report on the illegals in our schools.
TEACHER’S POSTING:
Subject: Cheap Labor This
should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent from a
California school teacher.
"As you listen to
the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some
things that you should be aware of: I am in charge of the
English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high
school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average
lower socioeconomic and income levels. Most of the schools you are hearing
about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, etc., where these
students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools. Title 1 schools are
on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm
not talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar
with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of
this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash
uneaten. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK) I estimate that well over
50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or
more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the
unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class
without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family
watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK) I was ordered to
spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year
even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already
substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center,
half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the
appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free
education in America. (OUR TAX DOLLARS A T WORK) I have had to
intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist
of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who
raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas"
whores and throwing things that the teachers were in tears. Free medical, free
education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder they feel
entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and
entitlements? To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants
contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and
they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of
illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.
PARENTS SUE TO FIGHT ANTI-WHITE,
ANTI-MALE, ANTI-CHRISTIAN, COMMUNIST INDOCTRINATION IN CALIFORNIA
Leftist group “Just Communities” is in the legal crosshairs.
February
22, 2019
Parents in Santa Barbara,
California, are suing a leftist hate group called Just Communities and
the local school board there to end the group’s taxpayer-funded so-called
implicit bias training that has a powerful anti-white, anti-male, and
anti-Christian slant.
The lawsuit,
filed in federal court in Los Angeles, was brought by Fair Education Santa
Barbara, a nonprofit formed by parents of children enrolled in the Santa
Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD).
The group’s lawyer, Eric
Early, calls the curriculum used in the district “radical, discriminatory, and
illegal.” In a letter to the district’s counsel last September he wrote that
“[t]eachers, parents and students have confidentially expressed their concerns
that … [the] discriminatory curriculum has led to increased racial animosity
toward Caucasian teachers and students.”
Just Communities (its full name
is Just Communities Central Coast) has a contract with the Santa
Barbara Unified School District to indoctrinate young people into believing
that America today is a manifestly immoral, cruel country in which white people
routinely oppress non-whites, men oppress women, Christians oppress
non-Christians, heterosexuals oppress gays, and the wealthy oppress the poor.
In Pedagogy of
the Oppressed, Marxist theorist Paulo Freire urged that schools be used to
inculcate radical values in students to transform them into agents of social
change. Freire argued that the so-called dominant pedagogy “silences” poor and
minority children and that there is no such thing as a neutral educational
system. Teachers today are also smitten with the ahistorical, anti-American
screeds of Howard Zinn, a Communist Party USA member whose writings they treat
as gospel.
Early said the lawsuit
aims to halt what he calls a “creeping, social justice warrior, alt-left
takeover of the Santa Barbara Unified School District.”
The lawsuit “is doing its
best to stop this outfit, Just Communities Central Coast, from
continuing to indoctrinate the teachers and young, vulnerable minds of the
district with Alinskyist training and beliefs,” Early said.
“The bottom line is it’s
time to stop the far-left indoctrination of the district’s teachers and
students and it’s time to bring to light what’s really going on in these
classrooms to parents who had no idea before this came to light.”
The legal complaint
states the SBUSD has “wholeheartedly supported and promoted JCCC’s discriminatory
program” and has paid the group more than $1 million since 2013. On Sept. 11,
2018, the school board “considered contracting with JCCC for [an] additional 4
years at a cost to the taxpayers of more than $1.7 million.” On Oct. 8, 2018,
the board “renewed its contract with JCCC for another year at a cost to the
taxpayers of nearly $300,000.”
SBUSD, according to the
complaint, is violating the U.S. Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 “as they discriminate on the basis of … race” by “intentionally
supporting, promoting and implementing JCCC’s programming in SBUSD’s schools
with knowledge of its racially discriminatory content and application, which
has created a racially hostile educational environment for many teachers and
students.”
Fair Education Santa
Barbara wants the court to terminate Just Communities’ contract
with the school district and filed for a preliminary injunction to freeze the
contract while the lawsuit proceeds. The motion for an injunction and other
pending motions are expected to be heard by the court in Los Angeles this
Monday, Feb. 25.
Fair Education says the
injunction is justified because a California statute provides that when a
public actor like a school district wants to hire people to do certain work for
the district, with very limited exceptions the contracts have to be submitted
for public bidding, which was not done in this case.
For its part, Just
Communities claims its trainings are aimed at closing what it
characterizes as an achievement gap between Latino and white students. Critics
counter that the group is trying to turn students into left-wing
revolutionaries by encouraging them to become political activists who view the
world through the Marxist lens of race, sex, and class.
The complaint states that
“[u]nder the guise of promoting so-called ‘unconscious bias’ and ‘inclusivity’
instruction, JCCC’s actual curriculum and practices are overtly and
intentionally anti-Caucasian, anti-male, and anti-Christian.”
The training materials
used by Just Communities are similar to those used by the
extreme-left Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC had to pay almost
$3.4 million in 2018 to settle a lawsuit with former Islamic radical Maajid
Nawaz whom it falsely labeled an anti-Muslim extremist.
America is a deeply
racist country, according to the Marxist-influenced, politically correct
training materials. White people enjoy special “privilege” because they are
white and gain “[u]nearned access to resources that enhance one’s chances of
getting what one needs or influencing others in order to lead a safe,
productive, fulfilling life.”
“Oppression based on
notions of race is pervasive in U.S. society and many other societies and hurts
us all, although in different and distinct ways,” the material also states.
It continues, describing
“classism” as “[a] system of oppression based on socio-economic class that
privilege (white) people who are wealthy and target people (of color) who are
poor or working class. Classism also refers to the economic system that creates
excessive inequality and causes basic human needs to go unmet.”
“The work of dismantling
racism is an ongoing process, not a one-time event, seminar, or course from
which one graduates,” the material states. “The process calls for a lifelong
commitment to eliminating all injustice."
“Just Communities’
bigoted indoctrination is the very antithesis of our aspirational goals for all
students,” James Fenkner of Fair Education Santa Barbara told FrontPage via
email.
Fenkner has four
daughters, three of whom attend school in the school district.
“I fully support the suit
because I fundamentally believe that everyone should be judged upon the quality
of their character, not the color of their skin,” he said. “Just
Communities’ divisive curriculum, as evidence by their grotesque ‘Forms of
Oppression,’ poisons the well of goodwill between all children and perpetuates
the dead-end notions of group victimhood, guilt, and retribution.”
The “Forms of Oppression” grid to which Fenkner refers is part of a bundle of teaching materials used by Just Communities. The
horizontal table states, for example, that “racism” is a “form of oppression”
that the “privilege group” of “white people” use to take aim at the “target
group” of “people of color.” The grid uses the same format to describe
“sexism,” “heterosexism,” “classism,” and so on.
Jarrod Schwartz,
executive director of Just Communities, denied the substance of
the allegations against his group, according to the Santa Barbara Independent.
“It’s not who we are, not
what we do,” Schwartz said. “The work is not about blame or guilt,” he said.
“We’re very intentional about not saying people are oppressors. It’s systems
that are unequal.”
Santa Barbara’s education
sector has become infected with doctrinaire radicalism.
Santa Barbara City
College adjunct professor Celeste Barber appeared on
“Fox & Friends” Jan. 30 to tell how she was heckled at a Jan. 24 meeting of
the college’s board of trustees. Attendees tried to shout down Barber, who is a
member of Fair Education Santa Barbara, when she spoke out against the board’s
ban on reciting the Pledge of Allegiance during meetings.
SBCC board president
Robert Miller previously told Barber by email that
the pledge was banned because it contains the phrase “one nation under God” and
because it is “steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism.”
“There is nothing white
nationalist about the Pledge of Allegiance,” Barber told Fox.
“There’s no reference to
race, to gender to ethnicity. It’s all inclusive. That’s why school children
around the country, thousands of them recite it every day because it includes
everybody who lives in this country.”
Bad publicity forced the
SBCC to drop the ban. The college announced on
Facebook the day before Barber’s television appearance that the Pledge “will be
recited” at board meetings “until some future date when the matter may be
reconsidered by the Board.”
And Santa Barbara is just
one of many communities across America that has come under the control of
radical education theorists and practitioners.
Immigration Is the Elephant in the Room in L.A. School Strike
By Steven A. Camarota on January 25, 2019
The recently
settled teachers' strike in the Los Angeles Unified School district was a
bitter dispute about resources, with class size and lack of staff support
taking center stage. The tables below show that immigration's impact on the
school system is enormous. Immigration has added large numbers of students to
the county, but at the same time a very large share of both legal and illegal
immigrants have modest levels of education and almost certainly pay less in
taxes than natives who have higher levels of education and incomes. Immigration
has also added significantly to the number of public-school students in the
county who live in poverty and speak a language other than English at home.
Overall enrollment has not increased in the district in recent years, but
immigration has reduced the proportion of students whose families pay
sufficient taxes to cover education costs, creating the ongoing strains on the
district budget.
Although it
is not possible to use Census Bureau data to look at only residents of L.A.
Unified, it is possible to examine Los Angeles County to gain insight into
what's happening. We identify legal and illegal immigrants based on the
methodology used in this
report. The data
comes from the public-use files of the Census Bureau's 2012 to 2016 American
Community Survey.
Among the
findings for L.A. County:
·
Public-school
students from immigrant-headed households comprise 58 percent of public-school
students in Los Angeles County (Table 2).
·
Of
all students in the county, 22 percent are from illegal-headed households and
36 percent are from legal immigrant households (Table 2).
·
The
poverty rate for students from both legal and illegal immigrant households is
more than 50 percent higher than that of those from native-headed households
(Table 1).
·
Of
students in poverty, 70 percent are from immigrant households — 28 percent from
illegal households and 42 percent from legal households (Table 2).
·
Of
students who speak a language other than English at home, 82 percent are from immigrant
households — 35 percent from illegal households and 47 percent from legal
households (Table 2).
·
47
percent of illegal-immigrant-headed households are headed by a person who did
not graduate high school; the figure is 30 percent for legal-immigrant-headed
households. This compares to 7 percent of native-headed households (Table 3).
·
The
average income of illegal-immigrant-headed households is only 58 percent that
of native-headed households; for legal-immigrant-headed households it is 79
percent of native-headed households (Table 4).
·
Illegal-immigrant-headed
households have three times as many students in public school on average as
native-headed households; for legal-immigrant-headed households it is 50
percent higher. (Table 4).
·
Illegal
immigrants (ages 25-64) are more likely to hold a job (76 percent) than natives
(74 percent). The rate for legal immigrants is somewhat lower at 70 percent
(Table 5).
Least-Educated
State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older Who Never
Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School Graduates
California Gov.
Jerry Brown and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) outside the U.S.
Capitol, March 22, 2017. (Getty Images/Alex Wong)
(CNSNews.com)
- 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.
California
and Texas—while having the highest percentages of residents 25 and older who
never finished ninth grade and the lowest percentages who graduated from high
school—are the nation’s two most populous states.
In
fact, the 2,510,370 California residents 25 and older who, according to the
Census Bureau, never finished ninth grade outnumber
the entire populations of 15 other states.
In
California, children are required to attend school from six years of age until
they are 18. “California’s compulsory education laws require children between
six and eighteen years of age to attend school, with a limited number of
exceptions,” says
the California Legislative Analyst’s Office, an agency of the California state government. (The National
Center for Education Statistics also indicates that children in California
are compelled by law to attend school from 6 to 18 years of age.)
Massachusetts
ranks No. 1 for the percentage of its residents 25 and older—42.1 percent--who
have earned at least a bachelor’s degree.
These
rankings are based on data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 5-year
estimates, which were released this month.
In
the survey, the
Census Bureau asks respondents to specify the level of educational attainment for each individual
in their household. The question is: “What is the highest degree or level of
school this person has COMPLETED. Mark (X) ONE box. If currently enrolled, mark
the previous grade or highest degree received.”
The
survey form then offers the respondent multiple options ranging from “no
schooling completed” to “professional degree” or “doctorate degree.” If an
individual has not earned a high school degree, the respondent is asked to
specify the highest grade the individual actually completed—ranging from
“nursery school” through “12th grade—NO DIPLOMA.”
The
Census Bureau’s American Community Survey queries a random sample of more than
3.5 million U.S. households each year and publishes a one-year estimate for
each year. The five-year estimate, the bureau says, “is a weighted average of
the five one-year estimates.” The newly released five-year estimates are for
the period from 2013 through 2017.
Nationwide,
5.4 percent of residents 25 and older have never finished ninth grade,
according to the latest five-year estimates.
Ten
states exceeded the nationwide level of residents 25 and older who have never
finished ninth grade. These include: California (9.7 percent), Texas (8.7
percent), New York (6.5 percent), New Mexico (6.5 percent), Kentucky (6.1
percent), Nevada (5.9 percent), Arizona (5.9 percent), Mississippi (5.6
percent), Rhode Island (5.5 percent), and Louisiana (5.4 percent).
Wyoming—with
1.8 percent—had nation’s smallest percentage of residents 25 and older who
never finished ninth grade.
In
seventeen states, the percentage of residents 25 and older who at least
graduated from high school was less than the nationwide percentage of 87.3
percent.
These
seventeen states included: California (82.5 percent), Texas (82.8 percent),
Mississippi (83.4 percent), Louisiana (84.3 percent), New Mexico (85 percent),
Kentucky (85.2 percent), Alabama (85.3 percent), Arkansas (85.6 percent),
Nevada (85.8 percent), West Virginia (85.9 percent), New York (86.1 percent),
Georgia (86.3 percent), Tennessee (86.5 percent), South Carolina (86.5
percent), Arizona (86.5 percent), North Carolina (86.9 percent), and Rhode
Island (87.3 percent).
Nationwide,
30.9 percent of residents 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or higher.
In
nineteen states, the percentage with a bachelor’s degree or higher exceeds the
national percentage. These nineteen states include both No. 14 California
(32.6) and No. 9 New York (35.3), which respectively ranked No.1 and No. 3 for
the percentage of residents 25 and older who never finished ninth grade.
The
ten states with the highest percentage of residents 25 and older who earned a
bachelor’s degree or higher are: Massachusetts (42.1 percent), Colorado (39.4
percent), Maryland (39 percent), Connecticut (38.4 percent), New Jersey (38.1
percent), Virginia (37.6 percent), Vermont (36.8 percent), New Hampshire (36
percent), New York (35.3 percent), and Minnesota (34.8 percent).
West
Virginia—at 19.9 percent—has the lowest percentage of residents with a
bachelor’s degree or higher.
In
another seven states, the percentage of residents who have a bachelor’s degree
or higher is less than 25 percent. They are: Mississippi (21.3 percent),
Arkansas (22 percent), Kentucky (23.2 percent), Louisiana (23.4 percent),
Nevada (23.7 percent), Alabama (24.5 percent) and Oklahoma (24.8 percent).
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