Eduwonk alerted us to this article in the Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA) about how unprepared many high school students — even those with relatively high GPAs — are for college.

… eight out of every 10 first-time freshmen who enrolled at (Cal State) Dominguez Hills last fall needed remediation in English. Seven in 10 students needed math remediation — figures that belie the 3.13 mean grade-point average those same 606 students carried in high school.

Waves of students arriving unprepared for college is not just a problem at Dominguez Hills. Across the 23-campus CSU system, just 43 percent of first-time freshmen in 2004 were proficient in both college-level math and English, a number that has remained stagnant for the past three years despite a goal by CSU trustees to improve proficiency rates to 90 percent by 2007.

“There’s a disconnect between what they’re doing in high school to earn that GPA, and what is required and expected at the university level,” said Dominguez Hills President James Lyons.

88% of graduates from one South Bay high school who headed to CSU schools needed English remediation last year; 76% needed help in math.

And yet parents shouldn’t be allowed to seek better public schools for their children … and they certainly should not be allowed to take their tax money from these ineffective schools and use it someplace better.

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