03/29/2024

A Way Up, for All of Us

There’s only one solution for many of the challenges facing California — education, and not just for children, but especially for adults.

Fully 75 percent of prison inmates failed to finish high school. The children of parents with low literacy skills are 72 percent more likely to be illiterate themselves, get poor grades, disrupt classrooms, and drop out.

About 3.5 million California adults have no or few English language skills, while six million lack a high school diploma, leaving them unemployed or trapped in low-skill, low-pay, dead-end jobs.

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