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From Honolulu Star-Advertiser:

The latest annual report on Hawai‘i public school graduates suggests continuing damage from the COVID- 19 pandemic to test scores and postsecondary education enrollment — and both measures are still lagging miles behind the state Board of Education’s proposed goal to have every graduate “prepared for college and career success.”

Just 51% of Hawai‘i’s graduates in the Class of 2022 enrolled in any kind of postsecondary education — including four-year and two-year college programs, and trade and technical training — in the first fall after graduation, according to the report by Hawai‘i P-20 Partnerships for Education.

“Various studies nationwide that have shown that within this decade, approximately 75% to 80% of jobs are going to require a college degree. … Clearly we’re not there,” said Lauren Moriarty, a member of the BOE’s Student Achievement Committee, which was presented with the report Thursday.

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