Low graduation rates, poor attendance plague LA County juvenile hall students, report finds

Only a third of incarcerated students in Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall graduated last year and 14% were chronically absent or missed more than a month of the school year, according to a new report by a coalition of juvenile justice reform advocates.

The Education Justice Coalition, in the report released Wednesday, Aug. 6, argues these latest performance metrics, obtained from publicly released data, highlight the Los Angeles County’s long history of “systemic failure” when it comes to teaching youth incarcerated within its juvenile facilities. The coalition includes the Children’s Defense Fund-California, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, the Youth Justice Education Clinic at Loyola Law School, Public Counsel, Disability Rights California and the Arts for Healing and Justice Netwo