The Los Angeles Unified School District is celebrating a historic graduation rate for the 2023-24 school year.
District officials say the graduation rate jumped from 84% to 87%, an all-time high. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho attributes the increase to summer school.
“A month-long summer school attended by over 100,000 students in Los Angeles allowed many high school students to actually get credit recovery,” he said.
Suspensions are also down, and the LAUSD is no longer in the red or orange zone on any of the state indicators grading the district’s health and educational conditions.
But Carvalho also acknowledged the challenges ahead, including a growing budget deficit and the peace of mind of immigrant students.
“We do not want to contemplate the prospect of divided families, where one member of the family or both parents may actually face deportation while the child is a citizen,” he said. “There are children who were brought here when they were months old, a year old, two years old. They know no other nation.”
The school board adopted four resolutions this week focused on protecting immigrant students.
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