Since Oregon abandoned its essential skill requirements for high schoolers, graduation rates have skyrocketed.
I wanted to know the numbers behind "skyrocketed" and the article failed to deliver:
SB 744 went into effect for the 2021-22 school year. The sky rocketing might be true going forward but [according to the summaries of graduation rates here, it was mid-60% in 2009-10 and made gains every year up to nearly this 81% grad rate.] (https://www.oregon.gov/ode/reports-and-data/students/pages/cohort-graduation-rate.aspx) 2018-19 was 80%; 78.7% the year prior. Few percentage points up year on year to the present, since the 2009-10 data. Maybe (probably) they had other (less official) shortcuts in place since 2010.
The author should have spent more time on the results of standardized test scores, that would be more impactful. Would also be an improvement if everyone focused on improving those scores instead of the graduation rate, which is easy to improve with all kinds of shenanigans like "allurus" is saying elsewhere in these comments.
I wanted to know the numbers behind "skyrocketed" and the article failed to deliver:
SB 744 went into effect for the 2021-22 school year. The sky rocketing might be true going forward but [according to the summaries of graduation rates here, it was mid-60% in 2009-10 and made gains every year up to nearly this 81% grad rate.] (https://www.oregon.gov/ode/reports-and-data/students/pages/cohort-graduation-rate.aspx) 2018-19 was 80%; 78.7% the year prior. Few percentage points up year on year to the present, since the 2009-10 data. Maybe (probably) they had other (less official) shortcuts in place since 2010.
The author should have spent more time on the results of standardized test scores, that would be more impactful. Would also be an improvement if everyone focused on improving those scores instead of the graduation rate, which is easy to improve with all kinds of shenanigans like "allurus" is saying elsewhere in these comments.