THE FACTS
- California is the ninth largest economy in the world, and we educate 1 in 8 children in the US=6.2 million children (1,500,000 more than Texas, the second largest)
- California currently ranks last in teacher to student ratio
- California currently ranks last in librarian to student ratio
- California ranks last in guidance counselor to student ratio
- California ranks 47Th for district/administration to student ratio
- Only 75% of California students graduate from high school in four years.
- Dropouts from the class of 2008 will cost California almost $42.1 billion in lost taxable wages over their lifetime.
- California ranks towards the top in academic standards but unfortunately students are not taught all of our standards in a year
- Did you know we have standards in all the arts, music, visual, theatre and dance as well as science, math, language arts, physical education and social studies in every grade?