From the article:

California’s Department of Education has a new way of tracking dropout rates throughout the state’s public schools.

Since 2002, state law has required that each student from Kindergarten to twelfth grade receive a Statewide Student identifiers (SSID). Using the SSIDs state education officials can better track students what happens to students after the dropout from high school.

Along with better tracking students, the state also put “withdrawal” codes in place. When students withdraw from a school they are given one of 28 codes that shows why they left - whether they left to attend another school, received their GED or stopped showing.

Now, for the first time, detailed student-level information collected using the SSIDs and the withdrawal codes has become available through the department of education’s web site.

Source: Daily Demoocrat (Woodland)

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