40 yrs of Chicano Studies

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Old 10-01-2009, 09:17 AM
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Another blurb concerning East LA Schools:

40 Years After Walkouts, Little Has Changed, Latinos Say

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The dropout rate in East Los Angeles is still very high. In fact, “The dropout rate is higher today than 40 years ago,” says Patron
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news...c22fc76bbcfbe4

I'm having trouble finding info for Lincoln High, but here's this:

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Abraham Lincoln Senior High School in Los Angeles, California (CA)

City-data.com school rating (using weighted 2006 test average as compared to other schools in California) from 0 (worst) to 100 (best) is 18.

http://www.city-data.com/school/abra...r-high-ca.html
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We are NEVER going to catch up to the youth drop out or youth gang problem as long as we keep expanding the number of problem youths through immigration and illegal entry. We educate the latest batch and thousands more are let in to fill the void

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Amazing how much money it costs the US taxpayers to educate kids on how to more identify with your ethnicity, and then it costs again to teach everyone else not to.

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We stood up, and it mattered.

By Luis Torres

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The Chicano walk out of 1968 was about dignity and fundamental change that we're still striving for...

We also wanted to protest the conditions that led to a drop out rate hovering around 45%. Barely half of us were making it out of high school. Something was desperately wrong and we wanted to do something about it...

I gained a pride in my heritage that made me more comfortable with who I was -- a young man whose parents were from Mexico. I overcame the shame that I used to feel as a kid when my mother "spoke funny" in public. ..

In those times, I remember reading that "the best way to get the Man off your back is to stand up." We stood up on that day...

Forty years ago, the Los Angeles school board was the Man. Today it is an ally with the community in the effort to improve education...

The drop out rate at my alma mater, Lincoln High School, and the other Eastside high schools is still about 45%...

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http://classjump.com/mrcilker/docume...20mattered.pdf

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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...,5135201.story

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. I overcame the shame that I used to feel as a kid when my mother "spoke funny" in public. ..
I'll bet she still does too.

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About Abraham Lincoln Senior High School

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Abraham Lincoln Senior High School is located in Los Angeles, CA and is one of 199 high schools in Los Angeles Unified School District. It is a magnet school that serves 2780 students in grades 9-12.

Magnet schools are public schools that offer a specialized curriculum or educational philosophy, often with a specific focus or theme. Magnet schools promote student diversity because they are open to students outside the normal school district boundaries and often attract high caliber students through competitive programs.

Abraham Lincoln Senior High School did not make AYP in 2009. Under No Child Left Behind, a school makes Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) if it achieves the minimum levels of improvement determined by the state of California in terms of student performance and other accountability measures.*

A school's Academic Performance Index (API) is a scale that ranges from 200 to 1000 and is calculated from the school's performance in the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program. The state has set 800 as the API target for all schools to meet.

Abraham Lincoln Senior High School had an API growth score of 587 in 2009. California uses the Academic Performance Index (API) to measure annual school performance and year-to-year improvement. Abraham Lincoln Senior High School's 2009 base score was 609 and the school did not meet its 2008 school-wide growth target.

In 2008, Abraham Lincoln Senior High School had 23 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The California average is 21 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
Abraham Lincoln Senior High School Student Diversity
Students by Ethnicity*(2008)
Hispanic 81 %
Asian 17 %
Black < 1 %
White < 1 %
Filipino < 1 %
Multiple or No Response < 1 %
Pacific Islander < 1 %
American Indian/Alaskan Native < 1 %

Student Economic Level
Students Participating in Free or Reduced-Price Lunch

This School 76 % State Average 51 %

Student Subgroups

English Language Learners

This School 37 % State Average 25 %

Student Completion


Annual Dropout Rate for Grades 9-12

This School 7 % State Average 6 %

http://www.education.com/schoolfinde...n-senior-high/

Someone has to be lying about the drop out rates:

Two Chicano activist alumni claim it has been unchanged at this school at almost 50% for forty years, yet this statement claims 7%

Both Moreno Valley and Lincoln have five star ratings according to this source, and solicited commentary posted about both schools is glowing. Something stinks.

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Abraham Lincoln Senior High School in Los Angeles, California (CA)

City-data.com school rating (using weighted 2006 test average as compared to other schools in California) from 0 (worst) to 100 (best) is 18.

http://www.city-data.com/school/abra...r-high-ca.html

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Lincoln high school profile page http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bi...ent&which=8729

A bunch of numbers:

661 Spanish speaking English Learners out of a total of 769 English learners, out of a total of 2777 students.

81.1% Hispanic

Drop out rate 8% with a derived 4 year dropout rate of 33.4%

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Lincoln high Drop out rate 11%
http://www.schools-data.com/schools/...s-Angeles.html

Article states California has a 24% dropout rate, focus of article is in Bay area
http://thesfkfiles.blogspot.com/2008...pout-rate.html

An LA times piece which has a couple of student views by Johnson Xue (his own writing) concerning Lincoln High School:

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clubs in the school are more for like the asian students not the latino.... that is a problem...... more clubs not just an asian club...

The small problems are: too many students are into period 6 p.e in a sport where all they do is just come to school to be in p.e .... a great example of this are the football players... 90% of all the members in the football team all they live for is football, they dont care about period 1-5, only period 6 p.e ... same goes for other students in a sport. 2nd small problem is: in nearly all the regular classes every1 DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.... only if they're in an honor class than individuals care a lil but in ap classes they care more... so basically students a large majority of them are in regular classes where its not hard not intense so NO NEED TO STUDY, because the teachers dont force them to study only if they're in honor class (still rarely) and ap classes (study a lot).

SO THE BIGGEST OUT OF ALL THESE SMALL PROBLEMS ARE: GANGS, LARGE CLASSES, AND MORE ACTIVITIES WEAR ALL STUDENTS FEEL WELCOME, AND CHANGING HS REQUIREMENTS, AND PUT AN END TO STUDENTS WHO DAYDREAM NOTHING BUT PERIOD 6 P.E WHERE THEY ARE IN A SPORT/TEAM, AND HAVE MORE AP CLASSES AND ADULT SCHOOL CLASSES THAT ARE 1X OR 2X A WEEK.
http://projects.latimes.com/schools/...n-senior-high/