College Eligibility Rates of Santa Barbara’s Latinx, Black Students Lead to Call for ‘Urgent Action’
High school and district officials say they re exploring the reasons behind the academic gaps and how to improve them going forward
Overall, 55% of Santa Barbara Unified School District graduates met A-G requirements for college admission in the 2019-20 year. From top to bottom, graduates attend commencement ceremonies at Dos Pueblos High School, San Marcos High School and Santa Barbara High School. SBHS graduates had a significantly lower rate of meeting the A-G requirements than graduates of the other two high schools in recent years. (Noozhawk photos)
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No new deaths were reported.
Whether the weekend bump is part of the regular ebb and flow of new cases remains to be seen. New infections jumped overall in California by 48% for the week ending Sunday, according to a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data, with 23,729 new infections confirmed statewide.
In Ventura County, Monday s number was more than double the 46 new cases reported over the weekend on April 5. But it nearly matches the weekend figure from two weeks earlier, when 116 cases were counted.
Weekend tallies in recent weeks remain starkly lower than when virus transmission peaked during December and January. At that time, Monday reports exceeded 3,000 new infections on multiple occasions.