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In California's youth justice system, many high schoolers graduate with grade-school reading skills [edsource.org]

 

Alameda County Library staff covers over any writing that students make on the books they check out of the juvenile hall library. CREDIT: BETTY MÁRQUEZ ROSALES/EDSOURCE

By Betty Márquez Rosales and Daniel J. Willis, EdSource, June 6, 2023

Many teenagers who’ve spent time in California’s juvenile detention facilities get high school diplomas with grade-school reading skills.

During a five-year span beginning in 2018, 85% of these students who graduated from high school and took a 12th-grade reading assessment did not pass it, according to data from the Division of Juvenile Justice, the agency operating state youth facilities.

What’s more, over a fifth of all students tested at lower grade levels, signaling how far behind these students are. And not a single student during those five years was below eighth grade, yet nearly a third of all assessments were for grades K-6, data show.

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