EDUCATION

    

EDUCATION

1.  Charleston County, South Carolina School Districts

School failure rate in grades 3-8. According to Acting Charleston County School Superintendent Donald Kennedy, 51% of our all 3rd through 8th graders are reading below grade level. 75% of students in poverty are reading below grade level. 81% of Black students read below the poverty level. This is a national problem. 

School-to-Prison Pipeline. Black people constituted 29% of state residents, but 53% of people in jail and 60% of people in prison are black. Since 1970, the total jail population has increased by 251%. In 2015, pretrial detainees constituted 70% of the total jail population in South Carolina. The state of South Carolina has failed to live up to the principles upon which this country was founded.

2. Education in California  More than half of California's students are reading below grade level, according to a survey that assessed third-grade reading performance in nearly 300 school districts. The California Reading Coalition released its report card earlier this month, which ranks the state near the bottom on national tests. Results from the 2019 National Association of Educational Progress

show that only 32% of fourth-graders are reading proficiently. These results put California below the national average and behind 25 other states.