Commentary: Can pay-for-success funding cure the state's lousy graduation rates?
by David L. Kirp, Los Angeles Times
Jun 26, 2018
3 minutes
California's community colleges have done a bang-up job of getting students in the door, but a terrible job of making sure they graduate.
Six years after enrolling, less than half of 2.2 million students had earned an associate's degree or transferred to a university, according to the Legislative Analyst's Office. Graduation rates are considerably lower for black and Latino students, many of whom come to college ill-served by their high schools and unprepared to do college-level work. And a host of
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