According to data just released by the California Department of Education, the number of African Americans who graduated with their class after four years of high school has increased 2.9 percent.
 
An estimated 65.7 percents of Black students, who started high school in 2008-09 graduated with their class in 2012.
 
At the same time, the dropout rate for African American students in the class of 2008-2009 decreased 4.5 percent over three years to 22.2 percent in 2012.
 

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Parents of students at 24th Street Elementary School voted to turn management of the campus over to a partnership between the Los Angeles Unified School District and Crown Preparatory Academy, the charter school company announced today.

The election was conducted after parents at the school submitted petitions under a so-called “parent trigger” law that allows them to decide who should operate a low-performing campus.