Liberty High School had a lower graduation rate than California s statewide graduation rate at 72.2 percent, in comparison to California’s graduation rate of 88.7 percent for the 2017-2018 school year, according to the California Department of Education. According to CDE data, graduation rates continue to indicate an increase in disproportional academic performance between White, Black, Latino, and English learner students. According to the National Centre for Education Statistics, in the 2017-2018 school year, of the 50 states where data was collected, students with disabilities were at the bottom of 4-year high school graduation rates by student group. Angela Johnson, a research scientist at NWEA, says “taken together, prior research suggests that inequities exist in the quality of education experienced by current ELs and non-ELs and that these inequities explain achievement gaps in middle and early high school” in The Effects of English Learner Classification on High
Government relief helped but isn t enough, local restaurants say. We ve lost so much. //end headline wrapper ?>Luke Zahm. Photo by Pat McDonnell/Wisconsin Foodie.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic,
Dan Jacobs and his business partner ran three restaurants and a bakery and employed 97 people.
Now, the Milwaukee-based enterprise is down to two restaurants DanDan and EsterEv 24 employees and less than half of the revenue generated from 2019 to 2020.
“We’ve lost so much money,” Jacobs said.
Wisconsin’s restaurant industry has been hard hit by the pandemic. It has earned sympathy from the governor’s office and has been the recipient of a patchwork of aid packages meant to offset revenue losses. But as restaurateurs head into a season that’s typically tough on the industry, some business owners are reasserting that they need more aid and guidance from the government.