Article: STATE SCHOOLS CHIEF O'CONNELL ANNOUNCES 2006-07 GRADUATION RATES NOW POSTED ON WEB

The California Department of Education issued the following news release:

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell today announced that graduation rates for the 2006-07 school year are now posted on DataQuest through the California Department of Education's Web site.

The state-level "ninth grade to graduate rate" is 67.6 percent, up from the previous year's rate of 67.1 percent. The rate California is required to report under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, using a different formula, is 79.5 percent. The NCLB rate is lower than the 2005-06 NCLB rate in part due to the inclusion of the first time-dropout counts based on Statewide Student Identifiers (SSIDs) in ...

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