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In recent years, politicians have treated immigration as the third rail. But as the number of Hispanics grows — and as they turn out in greater numbers at the polls — advocates say the issue of immigration will be harder to ignore.

The state's schools chief was in San Diego Tuesday to announce the latest passing rates for the High School Exit Exam. High school seniors must pass both the English and Math portion of the test by t

Teenage girls who have a baby are at high risk of having another child while they're still young. Planned Parenthood has a program designed to help teen moms finish school and delay additional pregnancies.

While most school reform efforts are increasingly focused on teachers, a small suburban school district in New Jersey has decided it's time to hold students more accountable. Middle schools and high schools in Mount Olive have eliminated the D grade, so students must earn at least a C to pass a class.

Poway Unified school district officials are urging people who dropped out of high school to get back on track. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis says the district is holding the Drop-In Day for Dropouts ev

Fewer and fewer Californians will have high school diplomas and college degrees in the coming years, and they'll be making less money. That's according to a new report by the National Center for Publ

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An investigation found sweeping failure within the state's assisted-living industry. One neighborhood in South Florida has become a de facto psychiatric ward because of zoning laws. Experts say you can pick anywhere in the country and find some version of the warehousing of people with mental illness.

California's high school exit exam is under attack in a Stanford University report which concludes the test is not working the way it was intended. The conclusion is based on data collected from urban school districts including San Diego Unified.

Investors and economists are nervously anticipating Friday's release of new data on unemployment, but for the non-experts out there, what what do those statistics really say? Here, a closer look at the two big numbers: the unemployment rate and the number of jobs created or lost.