Facts are merciless things.
Posted on 10/01/2017 3:00:03 PM PDT by artichokegrower
California has spent tens of billions of extra dollars on its K-12 school system in recent years on promises that its abysmal levels of academic achievement – especially those of disadvantaged children – would be improved.
And what have those massive expenditures – a 50 percent increase in per-pupil spending – and a massive reworking of school curricula accomplished?
Fewer than half of California’s children are meeting English standards and fewer than 38 percent are making the grade in math.
Not much, the latest results from annual testing indicate.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
If they pay the teachers more, it will solve this problem. /s
I'm sure the absurdly low English skills is completely unrelated to the Sanctuary Cities and wide-open illegal immigration. Thanks artichokegrower.
California - movie capital of the world.
California - education leader of the 50 states.
California - immigration model for America.
California - Nuevo America.
God help us.
I recall a story recently that awarded one of their sainted youths a degree post-mortem.
The most amazing thing is they didn’t cook the books or they did and results are even worse than their reporting?
When you import the third world you become the third world.
Facts are merciless things.
We don’t have an education problem (nor we have a poverty problem).
We have a culture problem.
union teachers and admins
is the core problem
Fake news and out right lie.
The money has been squandered on worthless educators possessing votes
And their meals are low sodium.
The major problem is not the black kids, unless they do not attend regularly. The problem is hispanic.
Spanish is the state’s second most spoken language. Areas with especially large Spanish speaking populations include the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the California-Mexico border counties of San Diego and Imperial, and the San Joaquin Valley.
By ethnicity, 38.1% of the total population is Hispanic (of any race). New Mexico and Texas have higher percentages of Hispanics, but California has the highest total number of Hispanics of any U.S. state. As of July 1, 2013, it is estimated that California’s Hispanic population has equaled the population of non-Hispanic whites. Hispanics, mainly Mexican Americans, form major portions of the population of Southern California, especially in Los Angeles, as well as the San Joaquin Valley where I’m from. The city of Los Angeles is often said to be the largest Mexican community in the United States. Census records kept track of the growth since 1850, but Mexican and Mexican Americans have lived in California since the Spanish period. However, the number and percentage population of Hispanics living in California increased rapidly in the late 20th century. The result is that, today, Hispanics are the largest ethnic group in Los Angeles County, at over 40 percent of the county’s population. Hispanics are predominantly concentrated in the older eastern and southern suburbs surrounding downtown Los Angeles and northern Long Beach, the southern/eastern San Fernando Valley, and the San Gabriel/Pomona Valleys. They also comprise sizable communities in Bakersfield, El Monte, Fresno, La Puente, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San José, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Stockton and Vallejo. In Santa Ana in Orange County, Hispanics comprise 75 percent of the population. Nearby Anaheim is over half Hispanic, and Orange County’s population is 30-35 percent Hispanic.
The Imperial Valley on the U.S.-Mexican border is about 70–75% Hispanic; communities with many Hispanics can also be found in Riverside County, especially at its eastern end, and the Coachella Valley. The Central Valley has many Mexican American migrant farm workers. Hispanics are the majority in Colusa, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Tulare and Yolo counties.
Hispanics make up at least 20% of the San Francisco Bay Area. Many live in San Mateo, Alameda and Santa Clara counties, as well in San Francisco. The Napa Valley and Salinas Valley have predominantly Hispanic communities established by migrant farm workers. San Jose is about 30-35 percent Hispanic, the largest Hispanic community in northern California, while the Mission District, San Francisco and Lower/West Oakland has barrios established by Mexican and Hispanic American immigrants. The Mexican American communities of East Los Angeles and Logan Heights, San Diego, as well the San Joaquin Valley are centers of historic Chicano and Hispanic cultures.
Many of these people are here to find work. the San Joaquin Valley from Bakersfield to Sacramento and north to the border is basically a work site for the Hispanics. And picking, growing, and working the crops takes manpower and they are cheap to hire. So the whole family gets involved with the industry and school comes second. They gotta eat.
Throwing money at the problem isn’t going to help. All this talk about illegals crossing the borders to find work isn’t materializing as they are competing with themselves for limited jobs that they have the skills to compete. So everybody works at what they can find. If they can’t find, they rob and steal. It is listed that 41% of the felony convicted housed inmates in the California Penal System are Hispanic. And that’s just the felonies. And each time the father goes to the slammer, kids have to find work to eat. There goes the education.
rwood
Sounds like the Bell Curve in action
That’s so unfair
What about the ones that don’t show up, Bigot?
It always amazed me that when ever there was a catastrophe, the news would report the status of the three essential services fire police and education, EDUCATION???? REALLY? California is a cesspool of mentally ill liberal progressives who continue to cut off their noses inspite of their face
Gee, I wonder if every town having a Spanish name has been any kind of attraction for “Hispanics”?
Trump’s fault.
Kalifornia spends “tens of Billions” on teacher unions, NOT the education of their children.
I’m also waiting for the “Asian privilege” to creep in here.....soon.
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