IE Students end at high speed but have a more college enrollment

From Deborah BrennanCalmness

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Students from the Internal Empire end a slightly higher percentage of their peers in other parts of California. So why are they lagging behind in enrolling and graduation?

Report from California Public Policy Institute Take a look at why students from the internal empire are lagging behind and what teachers can do to receive more college students.

“You have the lowest college educated, but our district has the highest (high school) graduates,” says Catalina Cifuentes, CEO for College and a career readiness with the Riverside County Education Office in the Online Report Forum. “So our students are very capable, but this is the connection between information and its implementation in practice.”

About 88% of the internal empire high school students graduated from high school, compared to 86% across the country, settled in the report. But the numbers turn afterwards.

It starts with the course work needed to visit the state of Cal or the University of California, known as AG requirements. While some school districts require a minimum of the state to complete the high school, others call for additional courses on topics such as mathematics or foreign languages, so all graduates are ready for college.

Throughout the Riverside and San Bernardino County, 48% of the students meet the requirements of AG. 60% of high school graduates meet these standards.

Without these classes under their belts, students must play catching up before entering a State University. As a result, only 57% of the internal empire graduates attend a college, while 65% of high school graduates throughout the country continue higher education.

Most internal empire students begin higher education in colleges in the Community. But only 31 percent of these students are transferred to a four -year school within six years, compared to 40 percent across the country.

This adds to a lower levels of college graduation. A quarter of the inhabitants of the internal empire, aged 25 to 54, have a bachelor’s degree, compared to 41 percent of Californians in this age range.

The regional economy plays a role in this precipice. The salaries in the Internal Empire are almost 40% lower than the average for the state, established in the report. But the key sectors in the region pay better than the minimum wage without college diplomas, attracting graduates of high schools with solid salaries, but limited potential for a career.

“Over the past decade, most workplace growth in the internal empire has been guided by transport, logistics and health industry, and most workers in these industries do not or need college,” says Kevin Cook, a policy researcher at California.

Those The work became a draw during the pandemicWhen many students finished without a clear direction, the university administrators told Calmatters.

Professional jobs still pay better than these, but the compromise between educational investment and return is not always clear to students and their families, he said.

“The lack of clear paths from college to career, the costs associated with visiting college and the fact that he returns to college, albeit significantly higher than a simple degree, can take years to realize and this can be discouraging for students and their families,” Cook said.

In addition, the speakers said, the region is huge, with 4.6 million people and a geographical area more large than most states.

“The size and scale of the region and the unique populations and cultures in it means developing a set of policies to improve college results is difficult,” Cook said.

In the past, parents were skeptical of the need for college, Cifuentes said, but recently some seem hostile. Her parents say to her, “You just want to put my child in debt for a loan. You just want them to be a socialist.”

“They accept information in bits and pieces and take judgments about higher education that have nothing to do with education, quality of life or getting high -paying work and health benefits,” she said.

In order to oppose this, she said that parents need more accurate information and “college enrollment and acceptance should really be a family decision.”

There are a few things that schools can do to enhance college enrollment, the report is established.

Starting college preparation is crucial, experts said. CalMatters reported to High School Initiative at UC Riversidewho introduces seventh -graders to the university.

If the high schools align the requirements for graduation with the standards of California, students will graduate ready for high school, the speakers said. This can simply mean adding another mathematics class or an extra year of foreign language.

Double enrollment, which allows high school students to take some hours to the community, can also move the needle, allowing students to get a jump in course work at college while fulfilling the completion requirements.

And by helping students fill out registration and financial assistance applications during the school day, instead of offering optional hours, it can encourage more students to apply for a college, Cifuentes said.

“We can control it when students are with us,” she said. “We already see an immediate return on this. We have over 23,000 more students so far who have already committed themselves to CSU than in the past. But we did all this during the school day.”

Imperial County wants to stop the development of solar farms

Imperial farmers are struggling to preserve agricultural land in production as the state insists on building solar farms, Dan Walters of CalMatters reportedS

The Imperial Irrigation area called to stop the transformation of agricultural fields on solar panel farms earlier this month. With more than 13,000 acres of fertile land that has already been transformed, the water area has asked the Imperial County Supervisory Body Council to protect productive agricultural lands.

The conflict illustrates the decline of the state in agricultural land, which decreased by more than 1.6 million acres between 1984 and 2018. Part of this land went to solar farms to fulfill state -owned mandates for alternative energy sources.

The California Agricultural Sector produces one -third of the country’s vegetables and over three -quarters of the country’s fruits and nuts, according to California Department of Food and AgricultureS

False ice reports spread fear

As icy repression violates the internal empire and other parts of California, the wrong immigration reports cause chaos, Press Enterprise Reports.

Public groups have published warnings about suspects of ice ranging from a white van of law enforcement in Riverside McDonald’s to officers at an SUV at a tire shop of the Yurupa Valley. But in these cases, they were wrong.

There is often a confusion between immigration actions and other law enforcement activities and many signals are well -meaning but false. Others are malicious attempts to attract attention or scare people, said a political organization representing Mexican Americans. This can protect people from work, school and other daily activities.

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