So many students, so few counselors. But a student proposal doesn’t call for more. | The Education Report

So many students, so few counselors. But a student proposal doesn’t call for more. | The Education Report

So many students, so few counselors. But a student proposal doesn’t call for more.

By Katy Murphy
Thursday, April 14th, 2011 at 7:00 am in college, high schools, students.

The kids who enter Oakland high schools this fall will need to complete the UC/CSU `a to g’ course requirements to graduate in 2015. A major shift, considering that less than half of the district’s 2009 grads had done so.

But a survey by Californians For Justice found that nearly 1 in 4 of students at Oakland High School didn’t know about those requirements, and that 30 percent had never met one-on-one with a counselor. A counselor quoted in the report, “No Knowledge, No College: Oakland Students Rising to the Challenge,” said there were four counselors for more than 1,800 students.

One section mentions a need for “additional staff support,” especially during high-