Despite significant education gains made in recent decades, working-age blacks in California are only about half as likely as whites to have a bachelor’s degree, according to a new report.
More than 90 percent of these black adults have a high school diploma but only 23 percent have at least a bachelor’s degree versus 42 percent of white adults, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, an advocacy group. In addition, one-third of them have some college but no degree — the highest of all major racial and ethnic groups — compared with 22 percent of all Californians.
Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.