This is a sampling of The Education Report, Katy Murphy's Oakland schools blog. Read more atIBAbuzz.com/education. Follow her at Twitter.com/katymurphy.
June 27: The four-year graduation rate in the Oakland Unified School District rose about four points in the latest estimate released today by the California Department of Education. About 59 percent of students who started high school in 2007 graduated with their classmates in 2011. About 28 percent dropped out, and 12 percent were still enrolled in school when the data were collected.
Some Oakland high schools had dropout rates in the 40 percent range. Life Academy and MetWest lost the lowest percentage of students among the district's schools, though their dropout rates were still higher than 10 percent. Charter schools are listed separately; you have to call each of them up individually to see how they did.
This is the second year the state has followed a cohort of students -- each with a unique ID -- through four years of high