DROP-OUT RATE IN SANTA CLARITA FAR BELOW STATE'S.Byline: Cynthia Teed Daily News Staff Writer The drop-out rate among high school and junior high students in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. was less than half the statewide average, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report for the 1997-98 school year released Monday. In the William S William, crown prince of Germany William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack . Hart Union High School District, the rate was 1.5 percent, said Gary Wexler, the district's director of curriculum. Both district and state dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rates are down significantly from 1996-97 levels - a drop of 1.9 percent in the district and 3.4 percent in the state, he said. According to the figures released by the state Department of Education, 142 students of the district's 9,727 students left school last year without graduating. The state labels the person a dropout when a student in any grade from seventh through 12th leaves school for 45 consecutive days, is younger than 21 and has not enrolled in another educational program leading to a high school diploma A high school diploma is a diploma awarded for the completion of high school. In the United States and Canada, it is considered the minimum education required for government jobs and higher education. An equivalent is the GED. or its equivalent. In addition, state officials said the statewide graduation Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. rate for students in ninth through 12th grades fell 1.3 percent in 1998. The figures show a 67.2 percent graduation rate last year for California's high school students. Although the state has seen a positive trend in the dropout rate, the graduation rate - which only counts those who graduate in four years - was slightly below the level 10 years ago, Wexler said. That could be because some students now need to stay in high school longer since core graduation requirements were increased in English, math and science, Wexler said. ``Since the core requirements have been raised, we notice students who had difficulty in those subjects before have even more difficulty with the increased requirements,'' he said. And some students complete the core requirements but still do not graduate after four years of high school because they do not have the quantity of credits, 220, that are needed, he said. A further drop in state and district graduation rates is expected by 2004, he said, when a statewide exit examination will be required, in addition to the district's competency COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account-books, and the like. 2. examination. Wexler said Hart officials have not yet decided whether to keep requiring the district test when the statewide test becomes a requirement. |
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