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          SENATE THIRD READING
          SCR 50 (Hueso)
          As Amended  June 4, 2013
          Majority vote 

           SENATE VOTE  :39-0  
           
           RULES               11-0                                        
           
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          |Ayes:|Skinner, Wilk, Bigelow,   |
          |     |Brown, Donnelly,          |
          |     |Gonzalez, Hagman,         |
          |     |Nazarian, V. Manuel       |
          |     |Pérez, Quirk, Weber       |
          |     |                          |
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           SUMMARY  :  Declares the week of August 4, 2013, to August 10,  
          2013, inclusive, to be Dropout Recovery Week and states the  
          Legislature's intent to encourage the support of dropout  
          recovery high schools with creative teaching strategies,  
          alternative assessments, and adequate resources.  Specifically,  
           this resolution  makes the following legislative findings:

          1)Research suggests that fewer than 73% of 9th grade pupils in  
            California, and in some school districts fewer than 50%,  
            graduate from high school.

          2)The Alliance for Excellent Education has done research and  
            concludes that if only one-half of the dropouts from a single  
            year were to earn a diploma, the economic benefits to  
            California would be staggering:  those recovered dropouts  
            would earn an additional $1.4 billion each year, increase home  
            sales by $4.5 billion during their careers, support an  
            additional 8,700 jobs to the midpoint of their careers, and  
            increase state and local tax revenues by $167 million  
            annually.

          3)There are dropout recovery high schools in California that  
            provide significant social, economic, and academic benefits to  
            their pupils and to California's population as a whole by  
            reenrolling over 23,000 former dropouts.

          4)Successful dropout recovery high schools utilize multiple  








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            strategies, including state-of-the-art technology, career  
            technical education to reach a variety of learning modalities,  
            accelerated learning pedagogies, competency-based, rather than  
            seat-time-based, instruction, and open entry and open exit  
            enrollment; and these schools attract and retain high-quality  
            staff committed to meeting the instructional needs of the  
            whole pupil and transforming them into successful students.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  None


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800 


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