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Is Equity the New Coconut Water?Ensuring Success for all

California’s Students Post Election

LAUSD Committee of the Whole Meeting

March 28, 2017

© 2016 THE EDUCATION TRUST— WEST

The Education Trust–West is a

nonprofit educational equity

organization focused on closing

achievement and opportunity gaps

through research, data, policy

analysis, and advocacy.


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At Jefferson Elementary School in Compton…

Nearly 2x as many Black and Latino 3rd graders are

meeting standards in English compared to the state average

School Demographics

94% Latino5% Black87% low income


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At Hilltop Drive Elementary in San

Diego County… more than

TWICE as many low-income

students are meeting

standards in math compared to the

state average

School Demographics

70% Low-income


Is equity the new coconut water?


Equity is the recognition of historical and systemic disparities in

opportunity and outcomes by providing the resources necessary to

address those disparities


Equity


America:Two Powerful Stories


1: Land of Opportunity

Work hard, and you can become anything you want to be.


2: Generational Advancement

Through hard work, each generation of parents can assure a better life — and better education — for their children.


Yes, America is often intolerant…

And we know the “Dream” is a work in progress.


We were:

• The first to provide universal high school;

• The first to build public universities;

• The first to build community colleges;

• The first to broaden access to college, through GI Bill, Pell Grants, …


1920 1940 1960

1980 2000 2012

Percent of U.S. adults with a high school diploma


Percent of U.S. adults with a B.A. or more

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Progress was painfully slow, especially for people of color. But year by year, decade by

decade…


Percent of U.S. adults with a high school diploma, by race

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Percent of U.S. adults with a B.A. or more, by race

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Then, beginning in the eighties, inequality started growing again.


In the past four years alone, 95% of all income gains have gone to the

top 1%.

Source: Stiglitz, “Inequality is a Choice,” New York Times, October 13, 2013.


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The US now has one of lowest rates of intergenerational mobility

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Source: Corak, Miles. Chasing the Same Dream, Climbing Different Ladders. Economic Mobility Project; Pew Charitable Trusts, 2010.


Median Wealth of White Families

20 X that of African Americans

18 X that of Latinos

Source: Rakesh Kochhar, Richard Fry, and Paul Taylor, “Twenty-to-One: Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics,” Pew Social & Demographic Trends, 2011.


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https://www.census.gov/hhes/school/data/cps/historical/index.html


At macro level, better and more equal education is not the only

answer.

But at the individual level, it really is.


California’s Students

3 out of 5 Students

are Low-Income

3 out of 5 Students

are Black or Latino

1 out of 5 Students

are English learners


So how are we doing?

Source: California Department of Education, http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/


Over past 30 years, we’ve

made a lot of progress on the

access side nationally.


Immediate College-Going Is Up

Source: NCES, The Digest of Education Statistics 2013 (Table 302.10).

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NCES, The Condition of Education 2010 (Table A-20-3) and The Condition of Education 2011 (Table A-21-2).


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Note: Percent of high school completers who were enrolled in college the October after completing high school

Source: NCES, The Digest of Education Statistics 2013 (Table 302.20).

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Source: NCES, The Condition of Education 2010 (Table A-20-1) and The Digest of Education Statistics 2013 (Table 302.30).

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This is good news

but…


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In CA high schools,Black and Latino students are:

Source: The Education Trust – West, Statewide Data Scan Executive Summary July 29, 2016

Least likely to meet standards on the Smarter

Balanced assessments

Least likely to have access to rigorous

coursework

Most likely to be suspended or expelled


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Fewer than 2 out of 5 of CA’s Black and Latino students complete all A-G college prep courses

2015 Graduates completing the A-G course sequence

Source: California Department of Education, 2016 (accessed June 2016).

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The number of California Black and Latino students who don’t graduate with their cohort each year

could fill the Staples Center more than 3 times


And these disparities persist through higher education…


Source:

In CA colleges & universities,Black and Latino students are:


Most likely to be required to pay for and take

remedial, non-credit bearing coursework

Most likely to leave without having secured a

degree or certificate, or having transferred to a four-year institution


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College Going Rates

6-year graduation rates for CSU, UC & 6-year degree, certificate, or transfer rates for Community Colleges

Source: California Community College Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) Scorecard, 2016 (accessed Nov 2016). Six-year graduation rates are for freshmen entering UC/CSU in 2009 and graduating with a Bachelor’s degree by 2015. Six-year degree, certificate, or transfer students are for students entering CCC in 2009-10.

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University of California California State University California Community Colleges

Latino Black Asian White ALL STUDENTS


And Low-Income Students Today Are Still Not Reaching the College-going Rate of High-Income Students

in 1972…

Note: Data for black, Hispanic, and low-income represent two-year moving average because of small sample sizes.

Source: NCES, The Condition of Education 2010 (Table A-20-1) and The Digest of Education Statistics 2013 (Table 302.30)

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Big Bets Post – Election


• California will position itself at the progressive model in a host of policy arenas

• California will also serve as an example of how to support undocumented students

• Equity will become an important issue in the 2018 Gubernatorial Race

• Redesigning an accountability system and 3rd

year of LCFF implementation

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