Filed under: Education
Unbelievable amount of money been wasted, and the humans lives been wasted is priceless! still our budget is not balance. Stop dropouts and as result, the budget finds the funds that will balance it. Harmony!
“California’s high school dropouts cost state taxpayers approximately $46.4 billion annually, according to a recent study by the California Dropout Research Project (CDRP) at the UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute located at UC Santa Barbara. In addition, the authors estimate that the economic benefit from effective dropout intervention programs would be $392,000 per high school graduate.”
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1643
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger what do you think? can we fix the education system in our beloved state of California by making it sustainable, and prevent more waste of human resources and cash.
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This memorial day its about the remembrance of the fallen heroes, those sent to war for the cause of peace.
We wish our children are not sent into harms way but someone children are sent into harms way, and those families suffer greatly the lost of a love one. Our conditioning by our cultures have made us tolerate this unfairness for some to suffer excessively while others are enjoying to the extreme. The goal is to balance both sides to a middle ground.
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How many times have we had that reported? every year the figures come in about the rate of drop outs.
I’m a in shock by the sick news that one out of 4 kids in California High School is a drop out, in Oakland, my town, is one out of 3! How can we pour all these money to help the world, and deal with whomever wants to be from any whatever political fashion, when our kids, in our backyard are home depress! Or out there filling up the more jails than colleges ratio. No Prop 84 passed in 2004 support these kids that may be dropping out of mental illness cause by the stress in their lives, and other illnesses like asthma, overweight,
LA Times:
1 in 4 quit high school in California
Using a new system for tracking dropouts, California discloses a rate considerably higher than previously reported. About 1 in 3 students in Los Angeles Unified left school.
http://articles.latimes.com/p/2008/jul/17/local/me-dropout17
May 13, 2009 the news announced that there are 1 out of 5 students dropping out of high school in California. In Oakland that rate is 1 out 3. Prop 63 for the mental health act, allocates money to treat this drop out population. Programs are just beginning to be taken shape as the health care industry is revamp.
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ACT Target of Proposition 83
http://www.dmh.ca.gov/Prop_63/MHSA/docs/Mental_Health_Services_Act_Full_Text.pdf
In any year, between 5% and 7% of adults have a serious mental illness as do a similar percentage of children — between 5% and 9%.
The program shall emphasize strategies to reduce the following negative outcomes that may result from untreated mental illness:
(1) Suicide.
(2) Incarcerations.
(3) School failure or dropout.
(4) Unemployment.
(5) Prolonged suffering.
(6) Homelessness.
(7) Removal of children from their homes.
