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About 52% of California's public school students in the 2011â2012 school year identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino and 26% as non-Hispanic Caucasian. The following ethnic groups made up the rest of the statewide public school student body: Asians (11%), African Americans (7%), Native Americans (0.7%), and Pacific Islanders (0.6%).
In 2016, California's Kâ12 public school per-pupil spending was ranked 22nd in the nation ($11,500/student vs. $11,800 for the US average). For 2012, California's public schools ranked 48th in the number of employees per student, at 0.102 (the US average was 0.137), while paying the 7th most per employee, $49,000 (the US average was $39,000).
if Hispanics are able to enter an undergraduate program, the likelihood of them dropping out is extremely high. In the U.S., the college graduation rate for Hispanics is 23 percent compared to 47 percent for whites (PEW CENTER: 2005, 16). Overview of the main trends and challenges in US education reform: the past decades
The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while whites ...
A comprehensive, peer-reviewed study by Zachary Bleemer found that Prop 209 has had a negative impact on graduation rates, graduate school attendance, and income for black and Hispanic students. In 2021, the University of California freshmen class reached an all-time high with 84,223 students.
The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. The first walkout occurred on March 5, 1968. The students who organized and carried out the protests were primarily concerned with the quality of their education.
The Learning Policy Institute in 2018 has concluded from a longitudinal study that "a 21.7% increase in per-pupil spending throughout all 12 school-age years was enough to eliminate the education attainment gap between children from low-income and non-poor families and to raise graduation rates for low-income children by 20 percentage points".
In 2000, about 530,000 Hispanics and Latinos 16â19 years of age were high school dropouts, yielding a dropout rate of 21.1 percent for all Hispanics and Latinos. [29] 11 percent of Hispanics/Latinos have earned a bachelor's degree or higher, compared with 17 percent of non-Hispanic blacks , 30 percent of non-Hispanic whites , and 49 percent ...