EDITORIAL BASICALLY UNSKILLED LAUSD'S FAILINGS SHOW UP IN POOR PREPAREDNESS FOR COLLEGE.If we needed more evidence of the failure of Los Angeles schools -- and the need for an education revolution -- the report that huge numbers of California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , freshmen lack basic math and English skills should do it. In all of the CSU See DSU/CSU. 1. CSU - California State University. 2. CSU - Cleveland State University. 3. CSU - Channel Service Unit. system, more than one-third of the undergraduates who entered last fall were found not proficient in math, while 45 percent of them lacked basic English skills. At CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge a startling 57 percent required remedial math, and 40 percent needed remedial English. Worse still, this was not an improvement from recent years. The need for remedial classes is growing faster than the student population at California State University Enrollment  campuses.
Considering that 41 percent of the first-time freshmen at CSUN this academic year came from Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. campuses -- not even counting the undergrads This article is about the television show. For the educational term, see undergraduate education. This article or section does not cite its . You can Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. who enter from local community colleges after attending LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) schools -- it's easy to trace the failure backward. The district might be dropping millions to construct more and better school buildings to learn in, but that isn't translating into better learning. How bad must it be when the schools are spending more money every year and churning out students with fewer skills? What this illustrates is how the problems in the state's largest school district leave lasting effects. When LAUSD can't teach basic skills, that puts the burden on the state's public higher-education system to do it. And if the state has to pay for the basic-skills classes twice, that means it can't pay for something else. Like art classes or physics. College ought to be a place for higher learning, not for filling in the gaps left by an inefficient grade school system. College students ought to spend their time preparing for one of the state's industries with worker shortages, such as health care -- not learning long division. Fixing the LAUSD isn't just about helping students; it's about preparing for California's future. |
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