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    California takes props as least-educated state, and yes, Democrats like it that way

    California takes props as least-educated state, and yes, Democrats like it that way

    So many special interests in California have a stake in keeping the state's educational achievement low, very low. Guess what: they've succeeded.


    December 20, 2018
    By Monica Showalter

    What an embarrassment.
    California ranks dead last on America's educational front. Terry Jeffrey of CNS News has the data:
    California ranks No. 1 among the 50 states for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed ninth grade and 50th for the percentage who have graduated from high school, according to new data from the Census Bureau.
    Texas comes in second. Both states are large and have major agricultural operations, which necessitates farm work. Farm work doesn't require much education, and it's logical that people with that kind of an educational résumé would gravitate to that line of work. The Sacramento Bee breaks down the educational levels by California city and shows that agricultural cities do lead the pack.
    It's also an industry that's more than a little famous for hiring illegal aliens, and those are the ones who actually work for a living rather than live off California's vast welfare offerings. Central American migrants, for instance, virtually all have less than a tenth-grade education and some of the lowest English-language proficiency skills in the entire world, according to the EF English proficiency index, which considers this skill a measure of development. The lowest-educated people who are making California number one in that category are likely in one of those two categories. Here's the other thing: lots and lots of low-education agricultural workers are keeping California from upgrading its agricultural operations, given their low cost.
    But it's likely more complicated than that. Combine it with a third factor in California, which is the low quality of its schools, made that way based on the high power of its teacher unions. Someone who got ballot-harvested out of the midterms, Marshall Tuck, was an advocate for school quality, including school choice and charter schools, and intensely opposed by teacher unions. He wasn't even a Republican or conservative; he was one of those guys President Obama's education secretary, Arne Duncan, liked, a hipsterly guy who nevertheless was all in for better education if for nothing else than to supply Google with workers. He got ballot-harvested in the last midterm based on the teacher unions' political muscle, losing to a useless left-wing political hack. So rest assured: there isn't going to be any improved quality or outcome in education, particularly for people at the bottom rungs of the educational ladder, given that they have no choice but to go to teacher-union public schools.
    Score one for the argument that Democrats have a vested interest in keeping the state at the bottom of the educational rankings, and schools will stay lousy because Democrats like it like that.
    Don't think there isn't more. Gavin Newsom came out not long ago and said he wanted to make California "number one" – not in educational achievement, but in per-pupil state spending. More spending isn't going to put California any higher in the rankings, given that high, above-the-national average spending is what got California ranked dead last in the first place. The high spending is to empower the state and its teacher unions. Sorry, kids – Democrats like it that way.
    Now let's get back to the illegals: recently, news accounts revealed that the foremost champion of illegal aliens with all this low education, the foreigners who break U.S. law so as to harvest its benefits for themselves, is the Catholic Church. Illegal aliens and the Church's "programs" for them bring in a hefty $100-million taxpayer paycheck, which explains a lot about why they champion such lawlessness. What it shows is that illegal immigration is big business for certain players in California, and more illegal aliens means more funding.
    Don't ever let anyone tell you there aren't vested interests in California content with this dead-last ranking in education. For a lot of the state's power players, ranking dead last is good times for the state and its bureaucrats and their acolytes as the money rolls in.


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    States loaded with illegal aliens, refugees and foreigners overcrowding our schools and dumbing down our students. They degrade the schools, bring the scores down and degrade the neighborhoods...that is a fact Jack!

    They bring more overbreeding, crime and poverty. Send them all back and our schools will soar. Clean up our neighborhoods and bring hope, peace and prosperity back to our towns and cities.
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    Least-Educated State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older Who Never Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School Graduates

    By Terence P. Jeffrey | December 19, 2018 | 12:49 PM EST

    California Gov. Jerry Brown and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) outside the U.S. Capitol, March 22, 2017. (Getty Images/Alex Wong)

    (CNSNews.com) - California ranks No. 1 among the 50 states for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed ninth grade and 50th for the percentage who have graduated from high school, according to new data from the Census Bureau.
    Texas ranks No. 2 for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed ninth grade and 49th for the percentage who have graduated from high school.
    9.7 percent of California residents 25 and older, the Census Bureau says, never completed ninth grade. Only 82.5 percent graduated from high school.
    8.7 percent of Texas residents 25 and older never completed ninth grade, and only 82.8 percent graduated from high school.

    California and Texas—while having the highest percentages of residents 25 and older who never finished ninth grade and the lowest percentages who graduated from high school—are the nation’s two most populous states.
    In fact, the 2,510,370 California residents 25 and older who, according to the Census Bureau, never finished ninth grade outnumber the entire populations of 15 other states.
    In California, children are required to attend school from six years of age until they are 18. “California’s compulsory education laws require children between six and eighteen years of age to attend school, with a limited number of exceptions,” says the California Legislative Analyst’s Office, an agency of the California state government. (The National Center for Education Statistics also indicates that children in California are compelled by law to attend school from 6 to 18 years of age.)
    Massachusetts ranks No. 1 for the percentage of its residents 25 and older—42.1 percent--who have earned at least a bachelor’s degree.
    These rankings are based on data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 5-year estimates, which were released this month.
    In the survey, the Census Bureau asks respondents to specify the level of educational attainment for each individual in their household. The question is: “What is the highest degree or level of school this person has COMPLETED. Mark (X) ONE box. If currently enrolled, mark the previous grade or highest degree received.”
    The survey form then offers the respondent multiple options ranging from “no schooling completed” to “professional degree” or “doctorate degree.” If an individual has not earned a high school degree, the respondent is asked to specify the highest grade the individual actually completed—ranging from “nursery school” through “12th grade—NO DIPLOMA.”
    The Census Bureau’s American Community Survey queries a random sample of more than 3.5 million U.S. households each year and publishes a one-year estimate for each year. The five-year estimate, the bureau says, “is a weighted average of the five one-year estimates.” The newly released five-year estimates are for the period from 2013 through 2017.
    Nationwide, 5.4 percent of residents 25 and older have never finished ninth grade, according to the latest five-year estimates.
    Ten states exceeded the nationwide level of residents 25 and older who have never finished ninth grade. These include: California (9.7 percent), Texas (8.7 percent), New York (6.5 percent), New Mexico (6.5 percent), Kentucky (6.1 percent), Nevada (5.9 percent), Arizona (5.9 percent), Mississippi (5.6 percent), Rhode Island (5.5 percent), and Louisiana (5.4 percent).
    Wyoming—with 1.8 percent—had nation’s smallest percentage of residents 25 and older who never finished ninth grade.
    In seventeen states, the percentage of residents 25 and older who at least graduated from high school was less than the nationwide percentage of 87.3 percent.
    These seventeen states included: California (82.5 percent), Texas (82.8 percent), Mississippi (83.4 percent), Louisiana (84.3 percent), New Mexico (85 percent), Kentucky (85.2 percent), Alabama (85.3 percent), Arkansas (85.6 percent), Nevada (85.8 percent), West Virginia (85.9 percent), New York (86.1 percent), Georgia (86.3 percent), Tennessee (86.5 percent), South Carolina (86.5 percent), Arizona (86.5 percent), North Carolina (86.9 percent), and Rhode Island (87.3 percent).

    Nationwide, 30.9 percent of residents 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or higher.
    In nineteen states, the percentage with a bachelor’s degree or higher exceeds the national percentage. These nineteen states include both No. 14 California (32.6) and No. 9 New York (35.3), which respectively ranked No.1 and No. 3 for the percentage of residents 25 and older who never finished ninth grade.
    The ten states with the highest percentage of residents 25 and older who earned a bachelor’s degree or higher are: Massachusetts (42.1 percent), Colorado (39.4 percent), Maryland (39 percent), Connecticut (38.4 percent), New Jersey (38.1 percent), Virginia (37.6 percent), Vermont (36.8 percent), New Hampshire (36 percent), New York (35.3 percent), and Minnesota (34.8 percent).
    West Virginia—at 19.9 percent—has the lowest percentage of residents with a bachelor’s degree or higher.
    In another seven states, the percentage of residents who have a bachelor’s degree or higher is less than 25 percent. They are: Mississippi (21.3 percent), Arkansas (22 percent), Kentucky (23.2 percent), Louisiana (23.4 percent), Nevada (23.7 percent), Alabama (24.5 percent) and Oklahoma (24.8 percent).

    In California, according to the Census Bureau’s five-year estimates, the resident population 25 and older was 25,950,818. Of those individuals, 2,510,370—or 9.7 percent--never completed ninth grade.
    Another 2,033,160 California residents 25 and older completed the ninth, tenth, eleventh or twelfth grade—but did not earn a high school diploma. Thus, a total of 4,543,530 California residents 25 and older—or a nation-leading 17.5 percent--have never graduated from high school.
    Those 2,510,370 individuals 25 and older in California who never finished 9th grade outnumber the entire populations of 15 other states, according to the Census Bureau’s latest population estimates. These include: Alaska (737,43, Delaware (967,171), Hawaii (1,420,491), Idaho (1,754,20, Maine (1,338,404), Montana (1,062,305), Nebraska (1,929,26, New Hampshire (1,356,45, New Mexico (2,095,42, North Dakota (760,077), Rhode Island (1,057,315), South Dakota (882,235), Vermont (626,299), West Virginia (1,805,832), and Wyoming (577,737).

    In Texas, the resident population 25 and older was 17,454,431. Of those individuals, 1,513,995—or 8.7 percent—never completed ninth grade. That outnumbers the populations of 11 states.


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