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Mayor Bloomberg may have used his education policies as part of his reelection platform, but Education Week reports that the city's on-time graduation rate is actually much lower than stated by the city and state. EdWeek says the city's graduation rate is 38.9%, whereas the state says it's 43.5% and the city claims 53.2%. The city's Depatment of Education says EdWeek didn't factor in how public high school students have "complex and discontinuous grade histories, with breaks in education and jumps forward or backward in grade chronology." Based on their numbers, EdWeek ranks NYC 48th out of 50 U.S. cities.
Here's the EdWeek Report - you can download reports by state.
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As my family begins evaluating the whole "public or private school?" issue for our young children, this is most discouraging (although not all that surprising). And it underscores why private schools have become such a cottage industry -- "Please, sir, my I have the honor of turning my life upside down to pay you $30,000 to educate my child?"
I suppose it all depends on where you live. Even private schools don't guarantee a "Quality" Education.
It's easy to pick a good Public school. Just pick the one with the least amount of blacks and hispanics in it.
It's easy to pick out the worst public school. It's the ones where the parents get into hysterics if their kids are without cellphones at all time in class. Seriously, like all this has come as a BIG surprise. Where the city council members and parents make it their utmost education priority to allow their idiot rugrats to carry their cellphones onto schools you're inevitably bound produce idiot adults that can't read or write. Who knew.