Hello again GATE Parents!
Week 10/10/16
GATE NEWS:
In Mrs. Williams' science class the students are here showing their final creation. They created rocks applying heat and pressure to create three types of rock.
Here are some photos' of the students in action:
Other News Here!
Early College High School Program
Informational Night
Fairfield Suisun Unified School District
Solano
Community College
RHS
Website: fsusd.org/rodriguez 
Students selected to participate in ECHS will benefit
from the following:
·
Self-directed
learning
·
Individualized
learning and career plans
·
College/career
emphasis
·
Academic
support
·
Opportunity
to earn a high school diploma with transferable college units
·
A
bridge between high school and community college
Minimum
requirements:
·
Recommendation
from current teachers
·
2.5
GPA
·
Pattern
of consistent attendance
·
Pattern
of responsible behavior
Early College High School Program Information Nights:
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Rodriguez High School Library
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Rodriguez High School Library
Contact Rodriguez High School for more information
707-863-7950, ext. 1003
What are early college high schools?
Early
college high schools are small schools designed so that students can earn both
a high school diploma and an Associate’s degree or up to two years of credit
toward a Bachelor’s degree. Early college high schools have the potential to
improve high school graduation rates and better prepare all students for
high-skill careers by engaging them in a rigorous, college preparatory
curriculum and compressing the number of years to a college degree.
Why do we need early college high
school?
A
postsecondary education is essential for financial and personal freedom in
today’s economy. A four-year college graduate earns two-thirds more than a high
school graduate does. An Associate’s degree translates into earnings
significantly higher than those earned by an individual with a high school
diploma alone. National statistics on the progression of students from high
school to college illustrate why it is imperative to better connect and
integrate secondary and postsecondary schooling. For example:
·
Young people from
middle-class and wealthy families are almost five times more likely to earn a
two- or four-year college degree than those from low-income families.
·
For every 100 low-income
students who start high school, only 65 will get a high school diploma and only
45 will enroll in college. Only 11 will complete a postsecondary degree.
(Source: JFF analysis of 1988-2000 data from the National Educational
Longitudinal Study for students from the lowest-income SES quintile.)
·
High school graduates
from poor families who score in the top testing quartile are no more likely
than their lowest-scoring, affluent peers to attend college. The former enroll
at rates of 78 percent; the latter at 77 percent. (Source: Advisory Committee
on Student Financial Assistance 2001.)
·
Nearly half of our
nation’s African-American students and nearly 40 percent of Latino students
attend high schools in which graduation from high school is not the norm. In
the nation’s 900 to 1,000 urban “dropout factories,” completing high school is
a 50:50 proposition at best. (Source: Robert Balfanz & Nettie Legters.
2004. Locating the Dropout Crisis—Which High Schools Produce the Nation’s
Dropouts? Where Are They Located? Who Attends Them? Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University.) According to the U.S. Department of Commerce (2009), disparities
in college enrollment persist by race and ethnicity as well. In 2008, 72
percent of recent white high school graduates were enrolled in college, 64
percent of Latinos, and 56 percent of African-Americans.
Such data call for radical
interventions to increase the number of low-income and young people of color
gaining postsecondary credentials. Clearly, bold education policies and
practices are needed to ensure that more young people earn the postsecondary
credentials that are crucial to their individual economic security and to the viability of our nation’s economy.
