OLU ALEMORU, The Wave
- With rates on some South L.A. campuses higher than 50 percent, educators devise new strategies and hope for the funding to carry them out.It will take a full-blown partnership of students, parents, teachers, business leaders, civic and faith-based groups to tackle what’s being called a crisis in the dropout rates among African-American high school students.
That’s the uphill task facing the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest school district, which last month released a bombshell study that came up with a newly-improved method for calculating the numbers of students leaving school without getting their high school diplomas.
The report, which tracked individual students through Statewide Student Identifier numbers, or SSIDs, as they moved from district to district, was designed to give the district more accurate data on its graduation rates.
