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Adult Education Completers Represent Perseverance and Commitment to Education

SAN DIEGO – Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park houses the joint commencement ceremony for San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE) and San Diego Unified School District’s Adult High School Diploma Program. SDCE is awarding 3,802 vocational certificates and 151 high school diplomas. Approximately 300 students are expected to participate in the traditional ceremony on Friday, May 29 at 5 p.m.

SAN DIEGO—African-American student enrollments in colleges and universities are at astonishingly low levels throughout the state. This is particularly true of African-American male students.  In addition, statistics show that more than one in five public school students in San Diego County will drop out of school by their senior year. If you disaggregate this information, the African American and Latino student drop out percentages increase to 41.7% and 30.3% respectively.

September 17 is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day in the United States

SAN DIEGO—“Repeat after me,” is usually the first statement from a US Citizen and Immigration Services agent who leads groups of people toward US Citizenship with an Oath of Allegiance. Next you hear a chorus of people break through exploding silence with “I hereby declare, on oath…” and so it begins.