Focus on quality education, not grads

California’s graduation rate increased for the seventh year in a row with the class of 2016, reported the California Department of Education last week, hitting 83.2 percent of students who started high school in 2012–13. Orange County’s graduation rate topped 90.8 percent, making it the only county in California with at least 3,000 students to achieve graduation rates above 90 percent. Of course, such success should be lauded, because higher graduation rates at least indicate t