14 percent of seniors failing
About 14 percent of Los Angeles Unified seniors - some 4,900 students - failed to pass the California High School Exit Exam this year, according to results released Wednesday. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.
The district's performance on the CAHSEE continues to lag the state as a whole, where only about 5 percent could not pass the exam by 12th grade.
Deasy issues cautions
Giving his first official back-to-school speech as superintendent of Los Angeles Unified, John Deasy praised local educators Wednesday for recent academic gains but challenged them to continue improving - and quickly. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.
Deasy lauded adminstrators and principals for raising test scores, improving graduation rates and decreasing the number of student dropouts. But he stressed that more needs to be done before the nation's second-largest school district can claim a true transformation.
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