Sunday, October 26, 2014

Today's America

35% of the students in Denver Public Schools are learning the English language! Only 53% of these students graduate from high school, which isn't much worse than the pitiful overall graduation rate of 61%. 40% of the students speak Spanish.

Yesenia Robles writes about the problem in today's Denver Post.
The 10 most common languages in the district:
English: 44,587 (52.09 percent of district)
Spanish: 34,824 (40.68)
Arabic: 893 (1.04)
Vietnamese: 892 (1.04)
Amharic: 411 (0.48)
Somali: 405 (0.47)
French: 250 (0.29)
Russian: 250 (0.29)
Nepali: 232 (0.27)
Burmese: 194 (0.23)
Mandarin Chinese: 194 (0.23)
Read more here.

What are the figures in your community?

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