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Amid the verdant lawn and leafy trees of the tidy Jefferson Senior High School campus, a police officer patrols the grounds and a sign warns that guns are illegal.
Students in this inner-city school say gang members frequently disrupt class, and teachers spend much of their time dealing with troublemakers.
The biggest problem here, however, may be what you don't see _ all the dropouts.
With a 58 percent dropout rate, Jefferson has the worst dropout record in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second-largest.
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At inner-city LA high, nearly 6 in 10 drop out
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31 tribal colleges fill niche, serve 26,000 students.(The Gazette)
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Lead poisoning in kids a persistent problem.
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